Incident date: 2021-04-20
NAICS industry code: 332116

An employee operating a transfer press was manually moving a press ram when their left hand slipped off the flywheel onto the top of a gear. The employee's third and fourth fingers became caught in the gear, resulting in an amputation to their fourth finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Presses, except printing, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high