Incident date: 2018-06-24
NAICS industry code: 928110

An employee was placing a channel iron inside an automated vise to secure the iron for cutting with a bandsaw. The vise automatically closed while the employee's left ring finger was between it and the channel iron causing an avulsion injury and hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate