Incident date: 2020-09-25
NAICS industry code: 325412

An employee was operating a tablet press that presses powdered material to form pills. The powder was not flowing evenly into the machine. The employee was moving excess product back into the feed frames and dies when her left index fingertip and fingernail were amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Special process machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high