Incident date: 2024-04-02
NAICS industry code: 311111

An employee was testing the tension of a belt on a capping machine when his finger got pushed into the drive wheel, severing a portion of the finger above the fingernail. The employee sustained a partial amputation to his left middle finger from the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Bottling, canning, filling machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high