Incident date: 2017-02-14
NAICS industry code: 325510

An employee was packing tubes in a box from a moving plastic cleated conveyor in the Packaging Department. The employee's work glove was caught on the moving conveyor pulling his hand into the static plate on the conveyor and amputating the right index finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Conveyors-powered, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high