Incident date: 2022-02-10
NAICS industry code: 339993

On February 10, 2022, a maintenance employee was attempting to remove a barrel from an injection molding machine when their right middle finger was crushed between the tools the employee was using to remove the part from the machine, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high