Incident date: 2022-12-14
NAICS industry code: 336399

An employee had just finished repairing a shearing machine and began loading material into the machine. As he was positioning the material, the shear cycled, resulting in an amputation to the tip of the thumb. The machine was unguarded at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Shearing machines
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high