Incident date: 2024-08-06
NAICS industry code: 335311

An employee was completing multiple bends on a piece of galvanized steel (~3-4 feet long and 5-inches wide) using a brake press when their thumb was caught between the steel and the ram/punch and die of the brake press. The employee sustained an amputation of their right thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Stamping machinery, presses  except printing
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Thumb(s)
severity: high