Incident date: 2021-05-11
NAICS industry code: 332322

An employee was using a floor shaper to put a radius on plastic parts. When placing a part into the shaper bit area, the part kicked and dragged the employee's left hand into the shaper. The employee sustained a partial amputation of the left middle finger and lacerations and avulsions to the left ring finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Boring, drilling, planing, milling machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high