Incident date: 2017-10-13
NAICS industry code: 336399

On October 13, 2017, an employee was untangling steel tubing on the front load end of a plating line when the machine recognized a change in tension and began pulling the tubing, which then pinched and amputated the employee's right ring fingertip. The machine was powered on at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Painting, priming, metal coating machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high