Incident date: 2019-02-07
NAICS industry code: 326112

An employee was performing maintenance on a plastic compression molding machine and suffered the partial amputation of the right thumb. The machine was not guarded or locked-out at the time.

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