Incident date: 2017-09-21
NAICS industry code: 311520

The injured employee was drying off excess sanitation water from the bottom of the nest plates on a filling machine. Her hand was next to the mechanism that lifts the cups out of the nest plates, referred to as the "lift pad." The lift pad pushed her right ring finger up into the hole as the nest plate was rotating smashing her finger and resulting in amputation of the fingertip and nail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Bottling, canning, filling machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high