Incident date: 2024-04-25
NAICS industry code: 311991

An employee was crimping a hydraulic hose with a hose press. The press caught the employee's left hand, resulting in the amputation of the thumb tip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Bending, crimping machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high