Incident date: 2018-07-16
NAICS industry code: 326112

On 7/16/2018, a temporary employee in training on a filling/packing machine suffered an amputation on her left middle finger. The safety interlocks on the front doors of the machine had failed and it continued to cycle as she was performing maintenance on the machine.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Bottling, canning, filling machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high