Incident date: 2022-01-19
NAICS industry code: 326199

On January 19, 2022, an employee was cleaning melted plastic particles off a pull roller in an extruder when his left hand was caught between two rollers resulting in amputation of four fingers (all but the index finger) on the left hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
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