Incident date: 2022-01-07
NAICS industry code: 332999

An employee was loading a piece of sheet metal onto a shear. The material clamping device came down on the employee's left middle finger, causing the amputation of the fingertip and the fingernail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Shearing machines
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high