Incident date: 2025-03-18
NAICS industry code: 327331

An employee was working on an electric concrete block press and was making adjustments, and changing dies. The employee reached to grab a wrench and a ring on his right ring finger caught an edge on the exterior of the machine resulting in an amputation to the finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high