Incident date: 2019-07-24
NAICS industry code: 238990

An employee was assisting another associate in utilizing the large roll bender to bend 3-foot steel pipe. The employee's left index finger was caught in the machine and sustained an avulsion resulting in amputation to the first knuckle.

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