Incident date: 2018-04-13
NAICS industry code: 331222

An employee was attempting to thread a drawblock on a dry drawing machine by placing a come-a-long chain on the drawblock head when the machine malfunctioned, causing the drawblock to suddenly turn. The chain then tightened and pinched the employee's right ring finger, causing an open fracture and amputating the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high