Incident date: 2020-05-01
NAICS industry code: 325510

An employee was washing out a paint filling machine. The filler head's automated valve closed on his left middle fingertip. About an inch of the finger was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Bottling, canning, filling machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high