Incident date: 2025-08-12
NAICS industry code: 336611

An employee was aligning a piece of 1 1/2-inch schedule 80 pipe into a rotary draw bender when the chuck was moved beyond the table. This caused the chuck and pipe to fall from the table. The employee's right index and middle fingers were pinched between the pipe and the table, resulting in amputations.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Pipes, ducts, tubing  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high