Incident date: 2024-04-26
NAICS industry code: 336214

An employee was operating a hydraulic metal shear to process sheet metal when they lost balance, and their hands were caught in the hold-down bar. They sustained an amputation to the right distal index finger and the left distal index finger was degloved.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Shearing machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high