Incident date: 2022-08-01
NAICS industry code: 322220

An employee was using a rag to clean product from the doctor blade assembly component of a foil lamination machine. The roller assembly caught the rag and the employee was pulled into the point of operation and suffered a partial amputation to the right index finger. The machine was unguarded at the time.

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