Incident date: 2016-03-10
NAICS industry code: 311514

An employee was reassembling a bagger head when a metal piece came too close to a metal detector and caused the machine to deactivate. The deactivation caused a valve to close on the employee's left thumb, partially amputating it.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Special process machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high