Incident date: 2025-05-19
NAICS industry code: 339112

An employee was cleaning the dental pouch machine at the end of his shift. He went to remove some tape from the stationary roller and his ring finger became caught between the nip roller and the stationary roller. The employee's finger was partially amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high