Incident date: 2024-04-22
NAICS industry code: 326160

An employee used an aluminum stick to remove plastic that was jammed in the screw of a machine. The stick got caught in the screw and was pulled into the machine. The machine then contacted the employee's left middle fingertip resulting in surgical amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high