Incident date: 2024-02-14
NAICS industry code: 333415

An employee was bending a piece of 5/8-inch copper tubing on a pipe bender machine. He noticed the machine was not bending the tube properly. As he was trying to correct the problem, his glove became caught, pulling his left index finger into the clamp die of the machine. His fingertip was crushed, resulting in an amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Bending, crimping machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high