Incident date: 2025-02-14
NAICS industry code: 311351

An employee was adjusting the film positioning on the vertical form, fill, and seal bagger machine. The employee's right index finger distal phalanx was caught and lacerated in the machine's sealing jaw. The employee was hospitalized and sustained a medical amputation of the distal phalanx.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
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