Incident date: 2024-10-03
NAICS industry code: 311511

An employee was running a blow molding machine and blowing gallon jugs when his right hand was pinched in the machine. He sustained amputation of the ring fingertip and fractures to the middle and little fingers. The machine was guarded at the time.

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