Incident date: 2018-02-09
NAICS industry code: 331210

An employee was aligning a steel tube on a conveyor when another tube bumped into the tube he was holding, causing his finger to become caught between the tube and lifting arm of the conveyor. His left ring finger was crushed, resulting in an amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Conveyors-powered, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high