Incident date: 2022-04-24
NAICS industry code: 336399

On April 24, 2022, an employee was operating a deck lid on a mold machine. The employee was attempting to remove a piece of rubber that was stuck in the machine when the guide caught his right little finger, resulting in hospitalization and surgical amputation of the finger.

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