Incident date: 2022-12-13
NAICS industry code: 326211

An employee was adjusting the stacking height of a curing bladder assembly in the open mold of a curing press. When the bolts on the closing clamp were loosened, the 60-pound assembly dropped and caught the employee's finger against the cylinder head. The employee's left middle fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high