Incident date: 2017-10-30
NAICS industry code: 331318

An employee was loading a billet onto a roller that feeds an extruder when the billet became jammed. He was trying to unjam the billet when his right index finger was pinched by two billets. His finger had to be amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Extruding machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high