Incident date: 2021-09-16
NAICS industry code: 311119

An employee was using a creeper to clean under packers. As he slid under the adjacent packer he reached up and a running chain caught the employee's left hand pulling it into the sprocket. The employee's left ring finger was amputated at the first knuckle.

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