Incident date: 2017-03-02
NAICS industry code: 335929

An employee was about to weld a piece of cable from the east side cable to the west side cable. The west side was already clamped off and the employee was putting the east side into the clamp on the cable welder. As he was lowering the guard, the clamp guard actuated catching his right middle finger in the clamp and amputating the fingertip.

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