Incident date: 2019-10-10
NAICS industry code: 311919

An employee was rebuilding a chopper assembly for a packaging machine in the maintenance shop. He was hooking up compressed air to test the unit while his left hand was resting against the chopper blade when the blade cut off the fingerprint pad on his left finger.

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), n.e.c.
severity: high