Incident date: 2016-12-18
NAICS industry code: 321219

An employee was monitoring the production line when he saw that a board on the line was not straight. As he attempted to straighten the board, his left ring finger was caught between the board and a flapper, amputating it just below the fingernail.

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