Incident date: 2017-07-27
NAICS industry code: 331221

On July 27, 2017, at approximately 7:10 a.m., while an employee was using a shear machine to cut a piece of steel, the back end of the steel came down and pinched their finger between the table top and the steel piece. The employee suffered an amputation to the left middle fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Shearing machines
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high