Incident date: 2024-01-18
NAICS industry code: 423740

An employee was operating a shear when its blade came down and amputated his left middle and ring fingertips. The machine was guarded at the time.

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