Incident date: 2025-04-25
NAICS industry code: 326113

An employee was making adjustments inside a thermoforming stack packer machine when the heater/seal bar came down on their left hand. The employee sustained a partial amputation to their middle finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high