Incident date: 2016-09-28
NAICS industry code: 424610

An employee was monitoring the production conveyor to remove defective products from production. While he was pulling a large piece of plastic off the conveyor, the piece of plastic fell into the equipment. The plastic started making a loud noise, so the employee attempted to remove it. His hand was then pulled into the equipment's wheel area. His right thumb and index finger had to be partially amputated. The guard was in place at the time.

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: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high