Incident date: 2017-02-14
NAICS industry code: 322211

An employee was operating a flexography machine when the conveyor belt began to jam with boxes. As the employee attempted to adjust the belt, the rotating belt's stitching removed the skin and fingernail from the employee's left pinky finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Presses-printing
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate