Incident date: 2025-03-11
NAICS industry code: 332999

On March 11, 2025, an employee was operating a vinyl extrusion machine. As they were correcting a defect in the vinyl sheet, their right ring finger was caught by the vinyl and pulled into the roller. The fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Extruding machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high