Incident date: 2019-07-08
NAICS industry code: 336399

An employee was lifting the elevator chain of a 1,200-ton press to place on a gear. The counterweight fell and the employee's left middle finger was caught in the elevator chain, suffering an amputation/crushing injury to the fingertip.

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