Incident date: 2022-07-27
NAICS industry code: 311411

An employee was setting up a bagger machine. As the employee was pulling the bottom of the second bag from under the doors, it caught and then pulled the employee's hand back up into the machine's jaws. The employee suffered an amputation to the tip of the thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
code_source: title: Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high