Incident date: 2024-01-05
NAICS industry code: 236115

An employee was removing a plug from a pipeline. The plug and the pipe caught the employee's fingertip just below the fingernail, causing a partial amputation without bone loss.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Sewers, drains, water pipes
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high