Incident date: 2024-09-11
NAICS industry code: 423930

An employee was operating a shearer to clean aluminum metal for recycling. Their right hand was pulled into the machine, resulting in fingertip amputations.

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