Incident date: 2025-06-09
NAICS industry code: 326199

An employee was cleaning the barrel of an extruder using a brush mounted on a handheld electric drill. The employee's gloves became entangled in the rotating shaft of the drill, and the last joint of the employee's left ring finger was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Drills, braces, drivers
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high