Incident date: 2018-11-16
NAICS industry code: 326160

An employee was operating a blow mold machine when a piece of plastic became jammed between the chain guard and the conveyor belt bed. As she tried to remove it, her left ring finger was caught and suffered an amputation. She was hospitalized.

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