Incident date: 2020-05-08
NAICS industry code: 332312

An employee was reaching for rebar gathered in a trough on a rebar stretching machine when the employee's right ring fingertip was pinched as the trough actuated. The employee sustained a distal amputation on the right ring finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Bending, rolling, shaping machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high