Incident date: 2020-12-13
NAICS industry code: 326199

On December 13, 2020, a press operator was making adjustments to the direction of a fan to cool the frames on the thermoforming press. The employee's left middle finger contacted the moving fan blades resulting in  amputation to the first digit.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
code_source: title: Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high