Incident date: 2016-09-07
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was cleaning a packer machine when his hand contacted the area where a compressing piston was moving and his right index finger was squashed. His right index finger had to be surgically amputated.

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