Incident date: 2017-06-28
NAICS industry code: 325211

On 6/28/2017, at approximately 7:45 a.m., an employee was cleaning the screen of a plastic extruder when his right index finger was caught and amputated between the screen and the heat collar.

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