Incident date: 2016-08-15
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was setting up a plastic pipe on the fusing machine when the ring finger on his left hand was caught and amputated between the mechanism of the fusing machine and the plastic gas pipe.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high