Incident date: 2017-03-15
NAICS industry code: 336412

An employee was removing Mylar coating from a stainless steel pipe. He was wearing cut resistant gloves at the time. He then placed the steel pipe on a lathe to sand the coating off the pipe. The rotating steel pipe caught his gloved right hand and pulled it in amputating the middle and ring fingers at the far distal joint.

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