Incident date: 2024-01-18
NAICS industry code: 326199

An employee used pressurized air to help release a cylinder from its mold base. While the employee's finger was under the tool to feel for movement, the cylinder coupling came free and crushed his finger, resulting in amputation of the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Source, secondary source  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high