Incident date: 2025-08-25
NAICS industry code: 333511

An employee was operating an overmolding injection machine. His left hand was crushed when the hydraulic plates came together to complete the overmold process. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left ring finger and abrasions on both sides of his hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Plastic injection molding machinery
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: moderate