Incident date: 2024-06-13
NAICS industry code: 332618

An employee was fixing a jam in the wire extruding machine and caught the tip of their finger between the drum and roller on the wire roll up. The employee sustained a right ring fingertip amputation. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

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: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high