Incident date: 2025-03-13
NAICS industry code: 423830

An employee was notching metal using a notching machine. A piece of scrap metal was stuck in the machine; as the employee went to remove it, the machine activated. The employee suffered an open fracture to the left middle finger and a skin tear/amputation of the left index and middle fingertips.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Boring, reaming, routing, notching machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high