Incident date: 2019-07-14
NAICS industry code: 332116

On July 14, 2019, an employee was helping to set a die into a machine. The slack in the chain tightened and caught the employee's right ring finger between the chain and the die, resulting in an amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Chains, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high