Incident date: 2025-07-24
NAICS industry code: 424490

An employee was removing a jam in a straw packaging machine. The machine pulled in her hand, and the blades lacerated her left middle finger and amputated the fingertip. The machine was guarded at the time of the incident.

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