Incident date: 2021-08-16
NAICS industry code: 335932

An employee was unjamming a forming machine when her fingers contacted the rollers that pull wire through the machine, resulting in a pinched ring finger and injuries to the little finger that required amputation down to the middle phalange. The machine was not guarded at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high