Incident date: 2020-12-07
NAICS industry code: 332913

An employee was doing maintenance work on a press machine. The machine was homed so that the employee could clear a piece of copper from the machine's die; the die closed and amputated the employee's left ring finger, as well as damaging his middle and index fingers and his thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Presses, except printing, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high