Incident date: 2019-11-12
NAICS industry code: 322219

An employee was on the air ring of an extruder drum, trying to pull up a foam sheet that was being fed from a lower platform but had jammed against a slitter blade. The employee's left index finger contacted the stationary slitter blade, and the pad was cut off.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Extruding machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high