Incident date: 2021-08-02
NAICS industry code: 334416

An employee was cutting heating element wire. The employee was adjusting the cutting blade when the piston arm activated and their finger was pinched in the machine, causing a laceration and a broken finger. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate