Incident date: 2018-09-11
NAICS industry code: 332439

An employee was changing a die on a press. He had removed the bottom half of the die and loosened the clamp on the top die, and was sliding the top half of the die to the right of the press when the top half fell about 6 inches onto his right hand. His middle and ring fingers were broken.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Dies, molds, patterns
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate