Incident date: 2018-10-09
NAICS industry code: 332439

An employee was operating an iron worker machine to cut a flat bar when the bar flipped up, catching the employee's left thumb between the bar and machine and resulting in an amputation to the thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high