Incident date: 2017-08-08
NAICS industry code: 324191

While making an adjustment to a pouch manufacturing machine, an employee had his left thumb pinched by the machine's cutting blades resulting in partial amputation of the thumb. At the time the interlocked door had been bypassed.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Special process machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high