Incident date: 2015-07-14
NAICS industry code: 423310

An employee was operating a powered pipe threader while wearing gloves.  The left ring finger was caught in the rotating threader and was amputated just above the first joint.

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