Incident date: 2024-09-04
NAICS industry code: 311812

On September 4, 2024, a maintenance employee was clearing a plastic jam on the discharge conveyor of a bagging machine when a piece of plastic in the chain caught the screwdriver he was holding. The employee was pulled forward and his left thumb tip was amputated in the chain.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high