Incident date: 2019-02-06
NAICS industry code: 423930

At about 8:45 p.m. on February 6, 2019, an employee was operating a blow bagger. The employee noticed that the blender, which is operated in close proximity to the bagger, no longer had material flowing from the valve. The employee was investigating this issue and amputated his left hand in the rotating blade in the valve.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Special process machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Hand(s), n.e.c.
severity: high