Incident date: 2017-12-08
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was using his right hand to feed a piece of metal into an iron worker metal forming machine and his left hand to operate the foot pedal, which had been moved up to the work surface near the machine. His left hand then entered the vertical metal forming device and was compressed, fractured, and lacerated.

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: Fractures
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate