Incident date: 2024-12-02
NAICS industry code: 314991

An employee was manufacturing fiber on an extruder machine when fiber became tangled in the machine. The employee went to clear the tangle when his left middle finger became caught in the fiber. The bone was dislocated from the first knuckle, resulting in a medical amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Extruding machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high