Incident date: 2025-03-07
NAICS industry code: 237120

An employee was walking in a saturated area and was sinking. While balancing himself, his right ring finger was caught in a pinch point on the pipelayer. The employee sustained an amputation to the middle and distal phalanges of the right ring finger (above the middle knuckle).

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level and catch oneself
code_source: title: Ground irregularity
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high