Incident date: 2016-02-05
NAICS industry code: 332312

On 02/05/2015 at approximately 1:00 p.m., an employee was operating a plate punch ironworker machine.  A piece of steel jammed, and he tried to dislodge or unjam it from the machine.  The tip of his left index finger was pinched by the machine resulting in the loss of the fingertip and some of the finger nail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Punch presses
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high