Incident date: 2024-05-08
NAICS industry code: 337127

On May 8, 2024, at approximately 10:50 PM, an employee was using a compressed air gun to clean the single-sided edge banding machine and unjam it when the blade amputated her left middle fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Banding, baling, strapping machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high