Incident date: 2022-11-04
NAICS industry code: 424130

An employee was cleaning the tooling of a plastic molding machine. The molding machine closed on his left hand, resulting in the amputation of the left index and middle fingers. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
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