Incident date: 2020-11-25
NAICS industry code: 445110

While discarding cardboard into a baler, an employee was holding the security door with their right hand and disengaged it from the locked position. While pushing cardboard into the baler with his left hand, his right hand slipped off the security door. The door slammed down and amputated his left middle fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Banding, baling, strapping machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high