Incident date: 2024-04-15
NAICS industry code: 337110

On April 15, 2024, at 9:45 p.m., an employee was operating a molder machine when a piece that was running through the molder became jammed at the point of operation. The employee was unjamming the machine when their right index finger contacted a spinning cutter head, resulting in a partial amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Boring, planing, milling machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high