Incident date: 2016-08-20
NAICS industry code: 312111

On or about August 20, 2016, at 5:30 p.m., an employee was helping another employee to move a mold to be repaired on the 18-station blow molder when his right pinky finger was caught in the machine. His pinky fingertip had to be surgically amputated just past the nailbed.

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