Incident date: 2023-07-27
NAICS industry code: 237120

An employee had been monitoring the progression of pipe onto a reel. The employee was removing a section of chain that restrains an air plug (which is inserted into the flexible pipe as part of the process), when the chain became hung up on the rotating take-up reel. The employee was untangling the chain when they sustained an amputation to their right thumb tip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
code_source: title: Machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high