Incident date: 2025-05-29
NAICS industry code: 323111

On May 29, 2025, at approximately 9:45 AM, an employee was operating a stretch wrapping machine in the shipping/receiving area when the machine malfunctioned. The employee was fixing the machine when his right thumb got caught in a chain. The machine removed 90% of the tip of his thumb and the bone was fractured. The employee required surgery and their thumb tip was reattached.

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 involving bone loss
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high