Incident date: 2022-04-20
NAICS industry code: 332999

At about 11:00 a.m. on April 20, 2022, an employee was operating a bar turner machine. As he was closing the shield that covered the machine's spinning cutting heads, it caught his index finger. Part of the finger was medically amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high