Incident date: 2025-05-20
NAICS industry code: 238990

An employee was running the shear when his foot slipped on the pedal. The employee's left ring finger was caught by the hold-down and the fingertip was partially amputated with loss of the fingernail.

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: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high