Incident date: 2024-02-25
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was trying to lift and hold a piece of 20" HDPE piping that was inserted into a fusion machine. The machine started and the employee's left index finger was caught between the roller and pipe causing a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high