Incident date: 2023-11-28
NAICS industry code: 423930

An employee was working at a wire stripper machine trying to put some wire through. The wire caught the employee's leather glove and pulled his left hand into the wire stripper. The employee sustained an amputation to the little finger. The machine was not guarded at the time of the incident.

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