Incident date: 2022-05-12
NAICS industry code: 325320

An employee was operating a cardboard bailer when his thumb got caught between the hook and chain in the bailer resulting in amputation of the left thumb tip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Banding, baling, strapping machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high