Incident date: 2017-12-11
NAICS industry code: 423830

An employee locked out an in-liner machine system and attempted to lift the flask and set it back on its designed track. The flask slipped off the side of the track that was supporting it, and the employee's finger was caught between the track and the 300-pound flask, resulting in an amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
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