Incident date: 2020-10-12
NAICS industry code: 336390

An employee loaded a part onto the forming machine and activated the machine using the two hand activation buttons. The machine pushed the pipe and the pipe touched the proximity switch which signals the machine to lower the pipe holding parts, but the holding parts did not come down. The employee was adjusting the pipe when the holding parts came down and amputated the index and middle fingers on their left hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high