Incident date: 2024-01-25
NAICS industry code: 323111

At 4:23 p.m. on January 25, 2024, an employee lifted the guard on a press he was working on. While the guard was lifted, the hydraulic piston on the guard failed, causing the guard to collapse onto the employee's right thumb and amputate the tip. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  unspecified
code_source: title: Industrial printing machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high