Incident date: 2019-01-16
NAICS industry code: 325211

An employee was using a tabletop date code stamper to record information on cardboard packaging when his finger was caught between the stamper head and base of the stamper, resulting in a finger amputation. The plexiglass face had been removed from the stamp at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Product labeling machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate