Incident date: 2024-08-06
NAICS industry code: 326299

On August 6, 2024, an employee was unjamming an extrusion cutter machine when the blade actuated and contacted their left-hand fingers, resulting in an amputation to the index finger and a laceration to the middle finger. The machine was guarded 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: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high