Incident date: 2019-09-16
NAICS industry code: 484121

An employee was adjusting the height of a hydraulic press table to insert the positioning pin when the hydraulic press came down and crushed the employee's hand between the pin and press table. The employee suffered a fractured left hand requiring surgery and hospitalization.

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