Incident date: 2025-06-17
NAICS industry code: 424490

An employee was operating a machine that packs cake mixes (a vertical form, fill, and seal machine). While unjamming the machine, his right index finger was caught in the cross jaws, resulting in a partial amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Bottling, canning, filling machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high