Incident date: 2015-04-06
NAICS industry code: 335314

An employee was feeding cable into the nut tester machine, which has crimp jaws. He held the cable with his left hand and used his right hand to hit the two-hand control, causing the crimping jaws to amputate his middle fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Product testing, inspecting, and diagnostic machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high