Incident date: 2021-09-09
NAICS industry code: 332618

An employee was working with a 50-ton swage machine pressing metal beads onto wire rope. The employee was using an Allen wrench to position the part between the dies when the machine closed on their right index finger resulting in a fingertip amputation to the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high