Incident date: 2016-10-19
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was feeding wire to a wire stripping machine when he noticed that the wire had a loop in it. He reached to get the loop out and while his left thumb was in the loop the machine tightened the loop resulting in the amputation of the tip of his left thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Entangled in other object or equipment
code_source: title: Electric parts, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high