Incident date: 2025-05-16
NAICS industry code: 321999

An employee was feeding a metal rod into a machine that threads and cuts the rod. When the metal rod twisted, the threads on the rod caught the employee's glove and pulled their left hand into the cutting machine. The employee sustained an amputation to a fingertip.

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