Incident date: 2020-05-19
NAICS industry code: 339994

An employee was trying to open the sealer bar on a piece of bagging equipment, which had closed in the down position due to low air pressure. The sealer bar closed on the employee's right index finger, causing a partial fingertip amputation (halfway down the nail, with no bone loss).

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high