Incident date: 2018-11-26
NAICS industry code: 922160

At 12:05 p.m. on November 26, 2018, an employee was trying to unjam the sheet metal feeder on a seam welder. The pneumatic pressure pushed the sheet metal against the employee, causing an amputation to part of the left thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Welding machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high