Incident date: 2024-05-09
NAICS industry code: 333999

An employee was using a pipe groover machine to roll a groove at the end of a 10-foot-long steel pipe. Their gloved left index finger was caught between the pipe and the adjustable pipe guard, resulting in a partial fingertip amputation through the distal phalanx.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Bending, rolling, shaping, stamping machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high