Incident date: 2025-02-27
NAICS industry code: 311611

An employee was working as a product tree pusher. He was removing damaged product when his right hand was caught between the head sealer and the bottom seal plate on the form-fill-seal packaging machine. The employee sustained amputations to his little and ring fingers. The machine was not locked out/tagged out or guarded at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Bottling, canning, filling machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high