Incident date: 2015-09-10
NAICS industry code: 332710

An employee was checking the gauging on an upper die shoe. The upper die shoe slipped/fell off the pins, and the employee turned and hit the cutting edge of the die. The employee sustained a left pointer finger soft tissue amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Dies, molds, patterns
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high