Incident date: 2024-10-18
NAICS industry code: 339930

A panel was knocked off the side of a plastic injection molding machine. A temporary employee was vacuuming inside the machine when their little finger contacted a moving part. The employee's fingertip was amputated.

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