Incident date: 2025-05-21
NAICS industry code: 331420

An employee was operating a jumbo coil rewinding machine and went to manually flatten the coil of copper pipe on the rewinding table. The employee's hand was pinched between a table pin and the first alignment roller as the table rotated. The employee was hospitalized with a laceration and hyperextension of his left index finger, and he required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Winders, unwinders
code_nature: title: Surface, flesh wounds and soft tissue injuries
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: moderate