Creative Packaging Company

Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified — Amputations — FORT WORTH, TEXAS

AMPUTATION — Worker suffered amputation at Creative Packaging Company in FORT WORTH, TEXAS
Employer Creative Packaging Company Report ID 2022098375
Address 600 E. 9th St. City, State ZIP FORT WORTH, TEXAS 76102
Event Date September 21, 2022 Outcome Amputation
Nature of Injury Amputations Body Part Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
Event Type Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified Source of Injury Bottling, canning, filling machinery
Industry (NAICS) 326199 Inspection #
GPS Coordinates 32.75000, -97.32000

Incident Narrative

An employee was clearing a bag in a fill machine when an electrically heated seal blade closed as her finger was inside the blade seal area, resulting in an amputation.

Incident Summary

On September 21, 2022, a worker at Creative Packaging Company in FORT WORTH, TEXAS suffered amputations to the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified. The incident was classified as caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified, with bottling, canning, filling machinery identified as the source of injury. The worker was amputation.

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