Incident date: 2016-01-26
NAICS industry code: 336991

An employee placed a carbon steel tube into a hydraulic tube bender and was activating the bar clamps to hold the tube in place when the second clamp crushed and amputated three left-hand fingers.

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