Incident date: 2022-06-28
NAICS industry code: 332119

An employee was operating a mechanical power press. The machine cycled and the pull-backs on his wrists did not pull his hands out of the way of the die as it came down. It crushed his left index, middle, and ring fingers, with a middle finger amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Presses, except printing, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high