Incident date: 2019-06-13
NAICS industry code: 339999

A temporary employee was attempting to remove a piece of plastic foam from a foam-cutting machine when the cutter snatched her glove and pulled her left hand into the moving cutter blade, resulting in the amputation of her left middle finger from the first knuckle and a broken ring finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high