Incident date: 2017-10-02
NAICS industry code: 336340

An employee was placing a part in an upsetter machine when his right thumb was pinched between the backstop and the end of the backstop bolt, amputating his thumb tip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Forging machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high