Incident date: 2022-05-05
NAICS industry code: 332216

An employee was testing an assembly flooring shear by raising and lowering the blade to ensure it aligned with the base. The employee's middle and ring fingertips were amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Shearing machines
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high