Incident date: 2023-02-10
NAICS industry code: 332216

An employee was setting up a frame and tool handle in an injection molding machine when the machine pressed parts together. The employee's left middle finger was caught between the frame and handle of the tool being manufactured, and the top of the finger was amputated.

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