Incident date: 2024-01-03
NAICS industry code: 335999

An employee was using a pneumatic benchtop-mounted crimper to crimp a terminal onto a wire. As the employee held the wire with their right hand, the crimper actuated and caught their right index fingertip in its jaws. The employee suffered an amputation to the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Bending, crimping machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high