Incident date: 2022-10-12
NAICS industry code: 332613

An employee was mounting a leaf spring onto a tooling machine when the spring moved. The tension in the spring pulled the employee's left index and middle finger against the backstop of the tooling machine, resulting in amputation of the left index and middle fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high