Incident date: 2016-04-14
NAICS industry code: 332312

An employee was working with a piece of metal on a shear machine while wearing gloves when his hand became caught on the machine guard. The guard pulled the glove and his left middle finger into the machine, amputating the fingertip almost to the first knuckle.

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: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high