Incident date: 2017-02-22
NAICS industry code: 321219

An employee was operating a banding machine and reached into the machine to remove a piece of wood. The platen that clamps the board closed on the employee's right index finger crushing the fingertip and fingernail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
code_source: title: Banding, baling, strapping machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high