Incident date: 2024-08-19
NAICS industry code: 332323

Two employees were working on a shear wire machine when a piece of wire became jammed. The injured employee went to free the piece of metal and the shear blade came down on his left hand. The employee's index fingertip was amputated. One or more methods of machine guarding was not provided.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Shearing machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high