Incident date: 2025-02-26
NAICS industry code: 339993

An employee was setting up the dies on a metal forming machine. He was feeding some material through and jogging the machine when his left middle finder got caught in the point of operation and the fingertip was amputated. The machine was not guarded at the time.

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