Incident date: 2025-06-17
NAICS industry code: 331420

An employee had been operating a copper wire repack machine. She turned the machine off and was fixing a stuck cylinder in it when the door that had been covering the cylinder closed on her fingers. Her left ring and middle fingertips were amputated by an air-operated plastic cutter inside the machine.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high