Incident date: 2017-08-15
NAICS industry code: 332722

On August 15, 2017, an employee was placing two ends of steel wire in a machine to be welded together when the hydraulic clamp used to hold two ends of a wire together caught and amputated the employee's left ring and pinky fingertips.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Welding machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high