Incident date: 2022-09-21
NAICS industry code: 326199

An employee was clearing a bag in a fill machine when an electrically heated seal blade closed as her finger was inside the blade seal area, resulting in an amputation.

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