Incident date: 2024-04-29
NAICS industry code: 333922

An employee was placing metal material into position on a shear when his left hand was crushed by the hold down bar, resulting in an amputation of his middle finger to the middle phalanx and a crushing injury to his ring finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Shearing machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high