Incident date: 2020-01-14
NAICS industry code: 492110

An employee was sorting boxes on the pre-sort line and attempted to make an adjustment to a box on the box line. The line was in motion and caught the employee's thumb between the box and a guardrail upright at the end of the platform. The employee sustained an amputation of the distal phalanx on the left thumb.

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