Incident date: 2019-11-05
NAICS industry code: 441320

An employee was responding to an issue with a shape machine; a wheel was stuck in the upper punch retainer tooling. The wheel was under stored nitrogen energy and released from the tooling. The employee's right hand and index finger were caught between the wheel and the machine resulting in partial amputation of the right index finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high