Incident date: 2018-01-27
NAICS industry code: 562920

An employee was cleaning a piston-type vacuum pump attached to an extruder machine when his left glove was caught in the cylinder by the internal machine parts, resulting in an amputation to his left index fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Extruding machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high