Incident date: 2024-07-01
NAICS industry code: 333111

An employee was operating a brake press. He was using an offset upper die to break a steel plate at 90 degrees when his left thumb was caught between the upper portion of the die and the part being bent. The employee sustained amputation of the thumb above the second knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Stamping machinery, presses  except printing
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Thumb(s)
severity: high