Incident date: 2023-01-25
NAICS industry code: 333111

An employee was moving special tooling back into a shipping stand when the locking pin latched incorrectly, allowing the counterbalance weights to slide to the end of the tooling. The weight slid past the safety stop, pinching the employee's right middle and ring fingers. The employee sustained two fingertip amputations.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high