Incident date: 2015-09-21
NAICS industry code: 326140

An employee was moving a mold cart into a thermoformer for a different product. The employee was pushing the cart from the side when the cart rolled and caught the employee's fingertip between the thermoformer framing and the cart, amputating the right index fingertip (full nail removed).

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high