Incident date: 2018-05-08
NAICS industry code: 322212

An employee was troubleshooting the shaker table on a plate machine. As the employee bent over to pick up a screw, the machine was activated catching her hand that had been placed on the table in the shaker table chain resulting in amputation of the right ring fingertip. The machine was unguarded at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Paper production machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high