Incident date: 2016-02-04
NAICS industry code: 237120

While performing pump repairs, an employee got his right middle finger pinched between the coupling extender on the pump and the discharge piping flange resulting in amputation of the right middle fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Pumps
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high