Incident date: 2025-03-26
NAICS industry code: 333220

An employee was completing setup of a job on a plastic molding machine. The employee was moving a molding tool within the machine using an overhead crane. Their left middle finger was caught between the molding tool and the eye bolt resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by suspended or swinging objects  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Vehicle and machine parts  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high