Incident date: 2018-06-25
NAICS industry code: 312120

An employee was cleaning a label machine. He was jogging the machine and cleaning glue off the glue roller when the sponge he was using got caught between the roller and the pallet, pulling in his fingers. Part of his right middle finger was detached and the tip of the ring finger was crushed.

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