Incident date: 2021-12-09
NAICS industry code: 331210

An employee was threading a flat bar machine when slack got into the coil line. As the employee reached to fix the coil, his gloved left hand got pulled into the metal flat bar coil. The employee's left index fingertip was crushed in the machine, resulting in medical amputation of the fingertip including the loss of bone.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high