Incident date: 2015-05-04
NAICS industry code: 332812

An employee was using a vacuum in the cleaning line when he pressed the wrong button and allowed a pipe to roll past his station. He and a coworker tried to move it back up the line, unaware that another pipe was rolling forward. The employee's right-hand pinky finger got pinched between the two pipes and was later surgically amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Metal pipes, tubing
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high