Incident date: 2024-02-08
NAICS industry code: 811310

An employee was positioning a metal plate on a shear when his foot contacted the foot switch and the clamping cylinders came down to clamp the plate in place. The tip of his right index finger was crushed by one of the cylinders, resulting in an amputation at the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Shearing machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high