Incident date: 2025-06-30
NAICS industry code: 331111

On June 30, 2025, at about 8:45 p.m., an employee started a new coil on a draw machine. While operating the machine, a steel ring fell from the top of the coil and became tangled on the base of the payoff s coil upender. To untangle the ring, the employee grabbed the ring with both hands and their right hand was pinched between the ring and the base of the coil upender, resulting in a partial amputation of the right little fingertip and lacerations to the right middle finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Other metal, wood, and special material machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high