Incident date: 2024-10-04
NAICS industry code: 331210

An employee was unjamming a die with a pry bar during a die change on a pointer machine. The machine cycled and the die crushed their left hand fingers. The employee sustained an amputation to their middle finger, a partial amputation to their ring finger, and a crushed index finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high