Incident date: 2019-12-23
NAICS industry code: 333112

An employee was preparing to remove a plastics injection mold from a press. The employee's left ring finger was caught between a jam bar and a mold press plate and was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Plastic injection molding machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high