Incident date: 2018-06-22
NAICS industry code: 336611

An employee had put a pipe in a vise and was adjusting the flange to insert a ring into the unit. The unit slipped from the vise; as the pipe fell and the employee tried to grab it, the vise pinched the employee's finger. He suffered a fingertip amputation on his left hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high