Incident date: 2025-06-17
NAICS industry code: 325412

An employee was standing on a step stool, preparing an encapsulation machine to be cleaned by putting a piece of plastic over the top part of it. As he was tucking in the plastic with his right hand, the machine's front access door closed on his right index finger. The right fingertip was amputated under the nail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Other special process machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high