Incident date: 2025-06-04
NAICS industry code: 333612

An employee was working on an extruder line and changing the spool when the line became tangled. The employee went to remove the line from the roller when his left hand was pulled into it, becoming caught between the line and the roller. The employee sustained amputations of his index, middle, and ring fingertips.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Extruding machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high