Incident date: 2024-01-08
NAICS industry code: 331210

An employee was preparing two steel strip ends to weld together. While he was shearing the end of a coil off, his right middle fingertip was amputated, and his right ring fingertip was severely lacerated, by a side clamp plate and a steel strip edge.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Shearing machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high