Incident date: 2024-04-14
NAICS industry code: 311999

An employee was working at a packaging machine when film that was traveling through the machine got jammed. The employee knelt on the floor and attempted to pull the film from the machine when the seal bars cycled shut and contacted his right index finger, resulting a fingertip amputation.

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: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high