Incident date: 2019-11-02
NAICS industry code: 335912

An employee was kneeling down to look under an welder machine to see if he could find a bracket that had broken off. The employee lost his balance and his left hand slipped off the frame of the machine. His left index finger was caught between a table transfer cylinder and a metal stop and the fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Welding machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high