Incident date: 2016-08-24
NAICS industry code: 332322

An employee reached onto the top of a piece of equipment to get a tape measure and his thumb was caught in a pinch point resulting in amputation of the thumb between the knuckle and finger nail.

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