Incident date: 2020-06-15
NAICS industry code: 322220

An employee was changing blades in a bag machine. While reaching to orient the new blade assembly with both hands, his left-hand glove was pulled under the drive belt guard and into the drive belt resulting in amputation of the left middle and ring fingers.

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