Incident date: 2023-04-03
NAICS industry code: 326160

An employee was observing work on a blow wheel machine during training. As the employee's hand was on the cam track, a co-worker manually moved the blow wheel and the employee's right thumb was pinched between the track and the moving cam on the track, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high