Incident date: 2025-04-10
NAICS industry code: 337215

On April 10, 2025, an employee was operating a brake press when two of its dies pinched her left ring and middle fingers. She suffered amputations to both fingertips, just above the fingernails. The machine was guarded with a light curtain at the time of the incident.

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