Incident date: 2018-04-02
NAICS industry code: 311999

An employee was cleaning a packaging machine when the machine started. The employee's right index finger was then caught between the machine's sealer bars, resulting in amputation.

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