Incident date: 2022-05-17
NAICS industry code: 332722

On May 17, 2022, an employee was loading a steel coil onto the coil reel on a stamping press. Because the coil's inside diameter was slightly larger than ordered and the reel expanders would not open wide enough to hold the coil, steel blocks were being used to take up the space. The employee was holding the blocks in place while another employee operated the controls to widen the expanders. As the expanders widened, a block slipped off the expander and pinched the employee's thumb and index finger, causing partial amputations to both.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
code_source: title: Presses, except printing, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high