Incident date: 2015-04-13
NAICS industry code: 332114

An employee was helping a press break operator form a piece of sheet metal for a gutter downspout. The operator and the employee placed the sheet metal into the break press and aligned the markings that were on the sheet metal under the press bar for the proper bends.  After the sheet metal was aligned in the press, the operator activated it at the control panel. The employee's right hand was in the press, and his two middle fingers were amputated at the first joint.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Brake presses
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high