Incident date: 2017-05-25
NAICS industry code: 326113

An employee was using a large screwdriver to clean hot plastic from the stationary cutting head of an operating repellitizer when the employee's right hand slipped and struck the cutting head blades, severing two tendons and lacerating the hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate