Incident date: 2024-07-04
NAICS industry code: 311520

An employee was removing plastic wrap from a machine with the machine propped open, when the knife descended and cut their right thumb tip and index finger. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery and a medical amputation to the thumb tip and index finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  unspecified
code_source: title: Machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high