Incident date: 2024-12-30
NAICS industry code: 311991

An employee was unjamming a packaging machine when they sustained a partial thumb amputation (right thumb at the knuckle) when the cutter engaged. Lock out/tag out procedures were not used.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Packaging, bottling, wrapping machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Thumb(s)
severity: high