Incident date: 2025-05-14
NAICS industry code: 541614

An employee was cleaning plastic film from a hooding device that applies plastic covering to palletized 50-pound bags of plastic pellets. When the plastic was cleared, the hooding device contacted their right hand and lacerated their fingers. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: moderate