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The chain became tight and flipped up on the draw block, pinching and injuring the employee's finger.","canonical_url":"https://api.morvs.ai/workplace-injury/2015052553"},{"id":"2018043763","event_date":"4/19/2018","employer":"Bekaert Corporation","city":"EXETER","state":"PENNSYLVANIA","hospitalized":1,"amputation":0,"loss_of_eye":0,"nature_title":"Electrocutions, electric shocks","body_part_title":"BODY SYSTEMS","event_title":"Indirect exposure to electricity, unspecified","final_narrative":"An employee suffered an electrical shock when he touched a metal cart that had become energized by an electric welder that was mounted on it. The employee was hospitalized.","canonical_url":"https://api.morvs.ai/workplace-injury/2018043763"},{"id":"2018043544","event_date":"4/13/2018","employer":"BEKAERT CORPORATION","city":"ROME","state":"GEORGIA","hospitalized":1,"amputation":1,"loss_of_eye":0,"nature_title":"Amputations","body_part_title":"Fingertip(s)","event_title":"Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified","final_narrative":"An employee was attempting to thread a drawblock on a dry drawing machine by placing a come-a-long chain on the drawblock head when the machine malfunctioned, causing the drawblock to suddenly turn. The chain then tightened and pinched the employee's right ring finger, causing an open fracture and amputating the fingertip.","canonical_url":"https://api.morvs.ai/workplace-injury/2018043544"},{"id":"2016021094","event_date":"2/4/2016","employer":"Bekaert Corporation","city":"ORRVILLE","state":"OHIO","hospitalized":0,"amputation":1,"loss_of_eye":0,"nature_title":"Amputations","body_part_title":"Fingertip(s)","event_title":"Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment","final_narrative":"An employee had just completed ripping a piece of wood stock when he changed the process and began to shave it.  While in the process of shaving the wood block it kicked forward causing the employee's hand to move forward into the rotating blade. The employee sustained an amputation injury to the tip of his right thumb.","canonical_url":"https://api.morvs.ai/workplace-injury/2016021094"},{"id":"2022021822","event_date":"2/26/2022","employer":"Bekaert Corporation","city":"ROME","state":"GEORGIA","hospitalized":0,"amputation":1,"loss_of_eye":0,"nature_title":"Amputations","body_part_title":"Fingertip(s)","event_title":"Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation","final_narrative":"At about 7:50 a.m. on February 26, 2022, a dry draw operator was using a welder to cut a piece of wire rod. A pneumatic cutter, part of the welding machine, activated and amputated the employee's right index fingertip just below the nailbed.","canonical_url":"https://api.morvs.ai/workplace-injury/2022021822"},{"id":"20181111353","event_date":"11/3/2018","employer":"BEKAERT CORPORATION","city":"ROGERS","state":"ARKANSAS","hospitalized":1,"amputation":1,"loss_of_eye":0,"nature_title":"Amputations","body_part_title":"Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.","event_title":"Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning","final_narrative":"An employee welded an ISC spool on a payoff to reconnect the wire. After completing this task, the employee went to the control panel and pressed the start button to begin running the machine. While the machine was running, the employee noticed a loop was in the loose wire on the payoff spool and attempted to twist the loop before the wire closed on the spool, which would have made an \"eye\" in the wire. This would have created a snarl and caused the machine to stop. The employee was attempting to get the loop twisted out when the wire closed down on the spool with his fingers in between. The fingers (index, middle and ring) of the right hand were pinched between the wire, resulting in a partial amputation of the index finger to the second joint, middle finger to the second joint, and ring finger to the first joint.","canonical_url":"https://api.morvs.ai/workplace-injury/20181111353"}]}