Incident date: 2020-06-19
NAICS industry code: 333243

An employee was clearing a blockage on the exhaust system at start-up while standing on the cooling bath rotor. The fins on the cooling bath roller cut through the employee's steel-toed safety shoe and amputated the right pinky toe. The machine was not guarded at the time.

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: Toes(s), toenail(s)
severity: high