Incident date: 2017-09-16
NAICS industry code: 339112

An employee was manually placing components to be heat welded to film when the employee noticed that the film was sticking to the front of the hole cutter. As the employee was attempting to remove the sticking film, the cutter activated and amputated the right middle fingertip.

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