Incident date: 2025-04-25
NAICS industry code: 326291

An employee was clearing jammed material from an extruder machine. The employee reached their left hand through the unguarded opening between the extruder machine and the conveyor belt to manually dislodge the jam and contacted the moving chain and sprockets, resulting in an amputation to the left thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Extruding machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Thumb(s)
severity: high