Incident date: 2024-08-30
NAICS industry code: 336330

An employee was preparing to bend a steel tube by loading it into a computer numerical control (CNC) bender's clamping jaws. Her right middle fingertip was caught in the clamping saws, resulting in an amputation.

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