Incident date: 2024-08-07
NAICS industry code: 333912

An employee was setting up dies on a die casting machine. The machine's ram unexpectedly returned from the down position and caught the tip of the employee's right thumb against a pinch point in the shot sleeve. The employee suffered an open fracture/amputation to the thumb tip. The machine was not locked out at the time.

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