Incident date: 2024-05-03
NAICS industry code: 339950

An employee was operating a butt welding machine and placing rings. Her left index fingertip became caught in the coppers, lacerating it and resulting in a partial surgical amputation to the finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Welding machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high