Incident date: 2024-01-04
NAICS industry code: 423510

An employee was loading sheet metal coil into a metal stamping machine. He was trying to adjust jammed metal that was being fed through the machine's straightener, picking it up with his left hand to help thread it into the die, when the pressure on the metal released. This caused it to shoot forward a few inches, and the employee's left index finger was pinned between the corner of the material and the edge guide. He suffered an amputation to the fingertip.

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