Incident date: 2023-03-07
NAICS industry code: 321999

At about 1:30 p.m. on March 7, 2023, an employee was clearing a material jam in metal-bending equipment. The equipment activated while the employee's right hand was inside it, resulting in an amputation to the index finger from the nail bed to the first knuckle. The equipment's side guard had been removed at the time of the incident.

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