Incident date: 2022-05-24
NAICS industry code: 332312

An employee was placing a piece of plate steel into a hydraulic shear to cut it. The shear cycled and caught the employee's index and middle fingers between the plate steel and the work surface of the shear. The employee suffered amputations to both fingertips.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Shearing machines
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high