Incident date: 2024-02-20
NAICS industry code: 332322

An employee was operating a metal shearing machine to cut 2-inch pieces of stainless steel. A piece of stainless steel became jammed in the machine. After removing the jammed piece, the employee noticed his marker had rolled into the machine. While trying to extract his marker, the shear engaged and amputated his left middle fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Shearing machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high