Incident date: 2024-03-20
NAICS industry code: 541711

An employee was using a can seamer in the research and development lab when their left index fingertip got caught between the seam press and the rotating can, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Bottling, canning, filling machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high