Incident date: 2016-09-01
NAICS industry code: 325510

An employee was cleaning PVC purge from the barrel of an extruder and amputated a half inch of his left index finger.

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