Incident date: 2015-12-23
NAICS industry code: 323110

An employee was using the manually operated (non-powered) plate bender to bend a plate when a part of the plate bender that he was holding (~20 inches long) slipped out of his hand and fell onto his left index finger causing a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker
code_source: title: Machine, tool, and electric parts, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high