Incident date: 2025-03-05
NAICS industry code: 541310

On March 5, 2025, an employee was lifting a 49-pound roller die onto an angle roller machine. The die dropped while they were setting it down. It landed on their right little finger, amputating some of the tissue on the finger. The employee sustained a medical amputation of the finger including bone.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object dropped by person
code_source: title: Dies, molds, patterns
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high