Incident date: 2016-06-22
NAICS industry code: 339112

An employee was attempting to clean a molding machine when the rotating dowel knife blade amputated his thumb and forefinger. The machine was unguarded at the time of the incident.

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