Incident date: 2018-07-10
NAICS industry code: 454390

An employee was changing a die in a hose crimping machine. The machine cycled while his right hand was in contact with it. The fingers on his right hand suffered severe damage: his index finger was pinned and stitched with permanent loss of the fingernail, his middle and ring fingers were amputated to the second joint, and his little finger was amputated to the first joint.

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