Incident date: 2023-05-23
NAICS industry code: 331523

An employee was hammering a piece of the die cast machine to flatten it out or flush into place when the brass hammer slipped from the employee's grip. As they went to catch it, the employee's right ring finger was caught between the brass hammer and the sliding pin of the die cast machine. The employee's right ring finger was partially amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Hammers-power not determined
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high