Incident date: 2019-07-18
NAICS industry code: 326199

A temporary employee was manually clearing plastic material off the air rod of an extruder as it was running into the corrugator when the corrugator machine caught his finger and amputated the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high