Incident date: 2022-10-26
NAICS industry code: 423840

An employee was threading a 5/8-inch round bar into a machine. A spinning bar caught his glove and pulled in his left hand and fingers. He sustained an amputation, laceration, and fractures to the thumb, index finger, and middle finger.

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