Incident date: 2016-03-24
NAICS industry code: 339991

An employee was changing the air line on a three-station pneumatic press. Her finger was in a porthole on the equipment when she connected the air line to the machine. The air caused a piston in the machine to be actuated while her finger was in the hole, amputating her right pinky finger between the first and second knuckle.

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