Incident date: 2018-08-31
NAICS industry code: 562920

An employee was cutting a metal piece with a shear and suffered an amputation injury to the right thumb. The machine was not guarded at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Shearing machines
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high