Incident date: 2023-07-31
NAICS industry code: 337212

An employee was setting up and checking a molder board feed system. He was adjusting the guide fence to ensure the board was in the proper position. As he was pushing the fence, his right hand slipped causing  his fingers to contact the rotating head. The employee sustained lacerations on the fingertips of his first two fingers. The right Index fingertip was surgically amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
code_source: title: Boring, drilling, planing, milling machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high