Incident date: 2020-06-14
NAICS industry code: 336411

An employee was cutting metal when his left ring finger was caught under a metal clamp. Once he pressed the pedal to actuate the cutter, his finger was crushed from the nail to the fingertip causing it to be amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high