Incident date: 2023-08-30
NAICS industry code: 326299

An employee was using a hydraulic plastic molding press when one of the mold pieces got stuck in the machine. The employee went to retrieve the piece and one of the plates came down on top of their hand. The controls were then activated causing the plate to crush the employee's hand. This resulted in the amputation of a finger.

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