Incident date: 2024-01-10
NAICS industry code: 332322

An employee was performing diagnostics on an automatic elbow machine when the forming piece that runs around in a channel severed the tip of his left middle finger, resulting in an amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high