Incident date: 2015-12-02
NAICS industry code: 326160

An employee was manually feeding a plastic sheet through a hydraulic/pneumatic press set on manual mode. The press then cycled and caught his left thumb in the point of operation area, amputating his thumb tip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Presses, except printing, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high