Incident date: 2017-07-14
NAICS industry code: 561720

An employee was changing bags on a bag tail blower on a packaging machine. While she was unhooking a bag from the blower, the blower motor lacerated her right index finger. Her finger had to be amputated at the fingernail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high