Incident date: 2025-01-16
NAICS industry code: 326211

An employee was unloading tire treads from a mold press when one of the treads became jammed. They connected a chain to the tread and were pulling it out of the mold when their left ring finger contacted the chain, resulting in a partial amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high