Incident date: 2023-08-31
NAICS industry code: 336212

An employee was operating a brake press. While he was adjusting a part on the bottom tooling, the head of the machine lowered onto his fingertips and amputated them.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Brake presses
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: moderate