Incident date: 2015-05-26
NAICS industry code: 326199

An employee was setting up the in-line vacuum forming machine line. The guard was off at the time of the incident and the interlock held down with a clamp. At the trim press stage, the employee came in contact with the steel rule die and amputated the index and middle fingers on the right hand.

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), n.e.c.
severity: high