Incident date: 2020-01-08
NAICS industry code: 332322

Two employees were repositioning an extrusion press's tail stretcher. The head stretcher was moved closer to the tail stretcher while one employee's right hand was on the material flow table. His little finger was pinched between the metal and the table, suffering an amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Extruding machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high