Incident date: 2023-07-18
NAICS industry code: 325211

An employee was cleaning a pelletizer machine. As he tested a strand, the machine pulled the employee's hand in, resulting in partial amputations to the little and ring fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high