Incident date: 2025-02-17
NAICS industry code: 332999

An employee was welding when their finger was caught between the welding electrode and the piece of metal being welded. The employee's fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Welding machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high