Incident date: 2023-10-19
NAICS industry code: 311991

An employee was operating a machine that fills, seals, and places lids onto cups with butter. She walked over to the lidding mechanism to pick up lids when her right ring finger was caught by the feeding plate resulting in amputation of the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Packaging, bottling, wrapping machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high