Incident date: 2025-05-06
NAICS industry code: 332999

On May 6, 2025, at approximately 10:30 AM, an employee was operating a brake press when his right index finger was caught between the part he was working on and the brake bend bar. The employee sustained an amputation of the nail of the finger and tissue from the distal joint to the fingertip. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Stamping machinery, presses  except printing
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high