Incident date: 2025-01-16
NAICS industry code: 332919

An employee was working with a piece of metal bar stock being fed into a rotary straightener. The employee was adjusting the bar stock in the feeder. The straightener caught, twisted, and pulled the bar stock, which struck the employee's hand. The employee suffered a partial amputation to the thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Bending, rolling, shaping, stamping machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Thumb(s)
severity: high