Incident date: 2024-03-05
NAICS industry code: 336399

An employee was replacing the chain on an extrusion molding run table. When the machine started up again they were caught in the chain and the sprocket, resulting in an open displaced fracture to their right middle and ring fingertips, a laceration to the middle finger, and an amputation of the right index fingertip. The machine was not guarded at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Extruding machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high