Incident date: 2025-07-11
NAICS industry code: 423440

An employee was operating a high-density polyethylene (HDPE) fusion machine. The machine's carriage was directing a fitting that was being lifted from the machine when the employee's left ring finger was crushed in a pinch point, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high