Incident date: 2017-01-07
NAICS industry code: 336111

On January 7, 2017, an employee was operating an overhead crane to lower a section of tooling into a stationary stamping die. He leaned on the stationary stamping die to ensure that the tooling was lined up. As he lowered the tooling, his left fingertip was caught and partially amputated in the opening/pinch point.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Cranes-gantry, overhead, monorail, container
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high