Incident date: 2022-05-31
NAICS industry code: 311612

On May 31, 2022, at 10:15 a.m., an employee finished repairing a packaging machine. When the machine started, the employee went to remove folded film on the sealer jaws and the jaws closed on his left hand resulting in amputation of the index, middle and ring fingertips.

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