Incident date: 2025-04-29
NAICS industry code: 323111

A maintenance employee was repairing a bent pusher on the inserting machine. The employee jogged the machine to view the pusher and his left hand was caught in the metal sprocket that drives the chain with the pusher, resulting in amputation of their left little finger at the first joint and the tip of the left middle finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Mailing and metering equipment
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high