Incident date: 2019-10-15
NAICS industry code: 327122

An employee was operating a machine that load tiles into a box. The employee attempted to correct mis-loading of tiles into the box when their gloved index finger was caught in the pulleys that drive the roller and conveyor feeding tiles into the box resulting in amputation.

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