Incident date: 2016-03-21
NAICS industry code: 326199

On March 21, 2016, at approximately 2:00 p.m., an employee was feeding materials into a punch press when the back adhesive on the materials became tacky and caused them to jam.  When she attempted to remove the jammed materials, the machine was activated via the foot pedal, crushing her right-hand middle and ring fingers. Her middle and ring fingertips had to be surgically amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Punch presses
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high