Incident date: 2021-07-12
NAICS industry code: 327390

At about 9:35 a.m. on July 12, 2021, an employee was using a rebar bender. The machine actuated while the employee was holding a bar with two hands; its pin rotated, and the employee's fingers were caught between the pin and the rebar. The employee suffered fractures of fingers on the left hand and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Bending, crimping machines
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate