Incident date: 2016-04-27
NAICS industry code: 331221

An employee working in the maintenance shop was adjusting the bolster of a hydraulic press. While the employee was attempting to align the bolster pinhole with a pinhole in the press frame, the bolster came down and amputated the employee's right index fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Presses, except printing, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high