Incident date: 2017-08-23
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was moving a portable welder from the back of a pick-up truck when his right ring fingertip and nail were amputated between the handle of the welder and the pipe rack.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Welding and heating handtools-powered, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high