Incident date: 2020-04-24
NAICS industry code: 321911

An employee was attempting to remove a splintered piece of wood debris that was stuck at the feed inside a molder machine when a spinning profile cutter removed a deep chunk from his right index 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: moderate