Incident date: 2017-02-24
NAICS industry code: 326160

An employee was operating the plastic bottle forming machine and opened a guard to grease a sticking bushing. The machine was running at the time and the tip of his right index finger was amputated in a pinch point.

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: Fingertip(s)
severity: high