Incident date: 2017-03-28
NAICS industry code: 326199

An employee was pulling out a strapper from the home position when the strapper came loose, striking the employee's right middle finger against a stationary frame. The employee suffered a broken right middle finger and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Banding, baling, strapping machinery
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate