Incident date: 2015-07-15
NAICS industry code: 325998

An employee was in the process of positioning/flattening a blue polymer strip in a Schneider Senator machine which cuts the strip to the required dimensions.  Both of the employee's hands were in the machine at the time. The employee activated the foot pedal which caused the positioning clamp to come down on the employee's left middle finger resulting in a crushing injury and later amputation of the fingertip.

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