Incident date: 2016-12-14
NAICS industry code: 423320

An employee was operating a horizontal bender machine to bend rebar. While he was adjusting the rebar for the second bend, his foot contacted the footswitch and activated the machine, which then crushed/amputated his right index finger.

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