Incident date: 2024-01-23
NAICS industry code: 331318

On January 23, 2024, an employee was working a shift on a packing line that was fed in by an extrusion line. The employee was picking materials from the packing line and packaging them for shipping. As they were traversing between packing stations, their right ring finger got caught in a nip point on one of the tables that fed the conveyor line, resulting in a partial amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  unspecified
code_source: title: Material and personnel handling machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high