Incident date: 2017-06-08
NAICS industry code: 331316

An employee was removing a block from an extruder vise when the employee's left ring finger was caught and crushed between the block and the vise. The finger had to be surgically amputated.

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), n.e.c.
severity: high