Incident date: 2024-12-08
NAICS industry code: 326199

An employee was inserting a large screw into the barrel of an extruder. The screw moved into the barrel unexpectedly, and the employee's little finger was caught between the screw and the barrel resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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