Incident date: 2015-02-03
NAICS industry code: 332722

On or about February 3, 2015 at approximately 4:15 p.m., an employee was performing set-up on a cold heading machine and while jogging the machine over, he reached into the machine while simultaneously stepping on the brake, causing his fingers to be caught in-between the punch and the die on the machine. The employee suffered two fractured fingers and a finger tip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high