Incident date: 2019-12-19
NAICS industry code: 327213

On December 19, 2019, an employee was conducting maintenance on a forming machine. He was checking the machine's ventilation system when the mold came down on his right thumb, causing an amputation without bone loss.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high