Incident date: 2025-08-06
NAICS industry code: 332618

An employee was changing out a carrier wire rod on the takeoff arm at the fine wire galvanizing line. The takeoff arm began to swing toward the employee and they went to stop it, when their right index finger was caught between the swing and takeoff arm in a 2  metal tubing bracket, resulting in amputation to the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  unspecified
code_source: title: Painting, priming, metal coating machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high