Incident date: 2017-12-12
NAICS industry code: 332996

While cleaning the expanding machine, an employee was about to replace the dies when he smashed his left thumb between the dies. He was hospitalized and had surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Dies, molds, patterns
code_nature: title: Crushing injuries
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate