Incident date: 2019-10-17
NAICS industry code: 327111

An employee was aligning a mold with his finger using a hydraulic jack trolley when the valve power brake was pressed which lowered the valve onto the employee's middle finger and amputated the fingertip below the nail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high