Incident date: 2024-12-13
NAICS industry code: 238990

On December 13, 2024, an employee was grooving a steel pipe using an anvil groover machine when his right hand became caught underneath the machine, resulting in amputation of the right ring fingertip and a severe injury to the middle finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Bending, rolling, shaping, stamping machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high