Incident date: 2025-08-12
NAICS industry code: 334418

An employee was replacing a linear motor shaft (a highly magnetic object) on a machine. The new shaft was placed on a work table next to the old shaft. Magnetism caused the two shafts to come together quickly and crush the employee's right middle fingertip. The employee suffered a degloving/amputation from the top of the fingernail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Vehicle and machine parts  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high