Incident date: 2016-05-16
NAICS industry code: 332321

While an employee was working on a punch press a piece of metal became stuck. The employee removed the guard to remove the metal piece. While his fingers were in the die area, the employee hit the foot pedal and stroked the machine. The employee sustained the amputation of the left index finger and fractures to the left middle finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Punch presses
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high