Incident date: 2015-10-13
NAICS industry code: 321114

An employee was adjusting a wood molder machine. The employee opened the hood and climbed onto the molding machine partially supporting his body on his right knee and arm. His hand slipped and contacted the machine's "knife" amputating the right hand's middle finger distal phalange.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high