Incident date: 2018-03-13
NAICS industry code: 321212

An employee was trying to unjam a skewed piece of wood panel from a press when the press door unexpectedly closed on his left hand, resulting in fingertip amputations to his index and ring fingers and a 1-inch amputation to his middle finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Presses, except printing, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high