Incident date: 2019-09-27
NAICS industry code: 444190

An employee was operating a bar bending machine when his finger was caught between the rebar and mandrel bender wheel, resulting in a right index finger amputation just above the first digit behind the fingernail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Bending, crimping machines
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high