Incident date: 2018-12-07
NAICS industry code: 325199

An employee was cleaning out a piece of equipment prior to restarting. The palletizer noise dampening lid dropped on the employee's right thumb after the shock absorber failed resulting in amputation of the thumb.

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