Incident date: 2023-08-14
NAICS industry code: 311612

An employee was removing a piece of plastic film in front of the vacuum of a hot dog packaging machine when the metal tool he was using was caught in a rotating part. The employee's hand was pulled in and the metal tool amputated the fingertip portion of his right middle finger to the bone.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
code_source: title: Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high