Incident date: 2018-06-15
NAICS industry code: 326199

An employee was trying to dislodge jammed plastic in a plastic sheet line; a shear in the machine amputated the tips of his left middle and ring fingers. The machine was guarded with a metal grate at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high