Incident date: 2024-03-18
NAICS industry code: 339112

An employee was placing a missing piece to a pen needle assembly machine jig when it pressed down on her right middle fingertip, crushing it. The fingertip was amputated halfway through her fingernail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Other special process machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high