Incident date: 2024-10-31
NAICS industry code: 339991

An employee was adjusting a ring on a bar bending machine when their glove became caught in a pinch point on the machine. The machine was activated and the employee sustained fractures to the four fingers on their right hand and amputations to the index and little fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Bending, crimping machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high