Incident date: 2017-02-08
NAICS industry code: 331511

An employee was preparing a shell core machine to make shells. The employee installed the right half of the pattern and placed the left into position. The employee activated the machine to bring the two pattern frames together. The rotating cylinder became stuck and the employee hit it with a hammer. The frames then closed on his left ring finger amputating it below the first knuckle.

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