Incident date: 2018-09-29
NAICS industry code: 311911

An employee was packaging nuts using a bulk vacuum sealer. The sealer's press caught her middle fingertip, crushing it and causing the fingernail to be removed.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Sealing, stapling machinery
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations
code_body: title: Fingernail(s), nailbed(s)
severity: moderate