Incident date: 2025-08-08
NAICS industry code: 339112

On August 8, 2025, an employee was operating a table-top injection molding machine. He refilled the barrel of the machine with resin and began a  pack  procedure in which the plunger of the machine moved into the barrel to compress plastic pellets into the mix. The plunger caught and amputated his fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Plastic injection molding machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high