Incident date: 2023-02-15
NAICS industry code: 311412

An employee was guiding film into a machine that packs frozen materials in cardboard, then wraps it in film and uses heat to seal the product. The chain that pulls the film into the machine caught the employee's right ring finger amputating it at the nail line.

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