Incident date: 2023-08-07
NAICS industry code: 332116

An employee was making adjustments to a swaging machine. As she was changing the mandrel, her right hand was wedged between the top plate and the mandrel, resulting in a crush injury that required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Crushing injuries
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate