Incident date: 2015-05-08
NAICS industry code: 332612

On May 8, 2015, an employee was putting an additional bend into a double torsion spring at a large servio table (wire bender) machine. He put his left hand on top of the part, and his left finger got caught between the bending mechanism (steel block) and the stationary block. He suffered a left ring finger amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Bending, crimping machines
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high