Incident date: 2019-02-06
NAICS industry code: 333249

An employee was performing maintenance repairs on a packing machine when the vertical clamping mechanism activated and partially amputated his right thumb. The safety guard was disengaged at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high