Incident date: 2025-02-17
NAICS industry code: 332312

The injured employee was working on the south side of a press while another employee was on the north side of the press, operating the die cart to insert a new die into the press. The injured employee noticed a couple of scrap metal parts in the die and went to grab the scrap pieces. The die caught the injured employee's right thumb tip against a hole in the press, causing a partial amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Stamping machinery, presses  except printing
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high