Incident date: 2018-06-21
NAICS industry code: 326199

An employee was on top of a molding machine, trying to start it, when the safety bar activated and smashed his right ring fingertip. He was hospitalized and had surgery to remove the finger above the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high