Incident date: 2020-01-06
NAICS industry code: 327124

On January 6, 2020, an employee was adjusting the weights on a mechanical press when the employee's left thumb was pinched between the wheel for the weights and the table on the press.  The employee suffered a traumatic amputation of the left thumb and was hospitalized.

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