Incident date: 2025-07-06
NAICS industry code: 316110

An employee was operating a leatherworking press. When the press opened, leather was stuck to the plate. The employee was retrieving the leather when the press came back down, causing fingertip amputations to his right index, middle, and ring fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Textile, apparel, leather production machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high