Incident date: 2020-11-08
NAICS industry code: 321999

An employee was monitoring the extrusion line that manufactures plastic board when it was stopped due to a process upset. When the line stops, material in the line must be cleared out before it may be restarted. The employee was clearing the line when his left middle finger was pinched between a board and the gravity roller causing an amputation to the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Extruding machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high