Incident date: 2019-11-07
NAICS industry code: 335931

On November 7, 2019, an employee was performing setup and changing the coil on an automatic crimper machine. As the employee was feeding the coil into a new point of terminals, the machine actuated and the anvil came down on his finger. The finger was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Bending, crimping machines
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high