Incident date: 2020-03-17
NAICS industry code: 332117

An employee was aligning/installing the bottom punch in a forging press. An airline was hooked up to extend cylinders for the die pod. The airline became disconnected and the die pod fell, pinching the employee's left index finger between the die and the punch. The finger was amputated to the second knuckle.

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