Incident date: 2015-07-06
NAICS industry code: 311423

An employee was on a canning line, blowing down station with an air gun, and the right hand drifted into the conveyor subsequently catching the ring finger on the conveyor resulting in injury. At the hospital, part of the finger needed to be amputated to close the wound.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Conveyors-powered, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high