Incident date: 2021-08-28
NAICS industry code: 322130

An employee was troubleshooting a bander. As he was trying to move a folded piece of paper in the bander, the strap head caught his left middle finger, causing an amputation. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Banding, baling, strapping machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high