Incident date: 2024-11-26
NAICS industry code: 322211

An employee was cleaning a press and removed a guard to clean between the rollers. The press turned on and the employee's right hand was pulled into the rollers and crushed up to the wrist. The main power on the press was not locked out at the time of the incident. The employee was hospitalized and his right little and ring fingers were medically amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high