Incident date: 2024-06-11
NAICS industry code: 238120

An employee was bending two pieces of rebar in a machine when their left index finger was pinched between the rebar and the backup ram on the table resulting in amputation of the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Bending, crimping machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high