Incident date: 2016-07-21
NAICS industry code: 332710

An employee was cleaning the material feeder into a mechanical punch press. The employee's glove got caught in a gear of the feeding machine. The finger was pulled into the gear crushing it. This resulted in the amputation of the right  index finger at the first joint

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Punch presses
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high