Incident date: 2016-08-08
NAICS industry code: 339999

On 8/8/16, an employee was cutting metal on a shear. The employee's gloved hands became caught in the metal hold-down pads that push the metal into the shear. The employee suffered a right-hand middle fingertip amputation, as well as left-hand middle and index fingertip amputations.

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