Incident date: 2019-02-21
NAICS industry code: 322211

An employee was clearing a blockage of the top photo eye of a baler. A shear inside the hopper caused the amputation of the employee's right index fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Banding, baling, strapping machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high