Incident date: 2020-10-04
NAICS industry code: 311991

An employee was performing scheduled maintenance on the side seal heater section of a filler. He was manually moving the heater bars back and forth when the cylinder engaged and retracted back from a closed position, pinching his finger between the heat bar and the frame of the sealer. He sustained an amputation to a finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Bottling, canning, filling machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high