Incident date: 2018-02-03
NAICS industry code: 336340

An employee was operating a pneumatic assembly press when the PLC programming did not activate the anti-repeat/anti-tie down feature and the press cycled. The assembly press ram/tooling then amputated the employee's left index finger at the second knuckle.

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