Incident date: 2024-05-16
NAICS industry code: 332312

An employee was bending 16-gauge metal using a brake machine when their right thumb got caught in the machine's pressing mechanism, resulting in a partial thumb tip amputation. The employee was wearing personal protective equipment at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Bending, crimping machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high