Incident date: 2019-08-02
NAICS industry code: 332111

A no-bake foundry operator was cleaning sand from a mixer discharge. The sand mixer blades came into contact with the employee's fingers. About an inch of the left index finger was amputated; the employee was hospitalized, requiring surgery to other fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Agitators, mixers-earth, mineral
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high