Incident date: 2021-11-09
NAICS industry code: 325412

An employee was cleaning a mint press machine. The rag the employee was using got tangled in the rotating tabletop and drew their finger into the press punch. The employee's right middle fingertip was struck by one of the mint press die punches, resulting in a partial amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Special process machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high