Incident date: 2025-02-08
NAICS industry code: 561910

An employee was setting up a machine when pins dropped from the machine's upper plate to its lower plate. This caused the plates to bind. The employee was clearing the bind when her right index fingertip was caught between the plates and amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high