Incident date: 2024-06-21
NAICS industry code: 324191

An employee was operating a spout machine when a spout became jammed on the spout piston. The employee opened the enclosed plexiglass protective enclosure around the machine to gain access to the jammed spout located on the crimping piston. The employee was unjamming the spout under the transfer table when her right index finger was crushed. The employee suffered an amputation to her fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Bottling, canning, filling machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high