Incident date: 2024-05-13
NAICS industry code: 332322

An employee was operating a sheet metal shear. They stopped and shut the machine off to fix a piece of metal that was bending. The machine was turned on again, and the employee's left middle finger was amputated at the first joint.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Shearing machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high