Incident date: 2018-08-06
NAICS industry code: 325998

An employee was working at the capping station on a bottling line when some caps fell off the automated capper onto the moving conveyor belt and were caught under the guard. The employee was attempting to retrieve the caps when her right ring fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Bottling, canning, filling machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high