Incident date: 2023-12-04
NAICS industry code: 331529

An employee was setting a caster die onto a plate. As the employee put pressure on the equipment, their right little and ring fingers were caught in a pinch point, resulting in a crush injury and partial amputation of the ring finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high