Incident date: 2019-09-26
NAICS industry code: 331421

An employee was helping a millwright install the bottom block of the wire-pulling device on a wire-drawing machine. The employee was holding onto the 400-600 pound block, trying to straighten it so it would continue traveling down its shaft. The block unjammed and traveled 4-5 inches, injuring the employee's left middle finger in the nail area. The injury resulted in an amputation above the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high