Incident date: 2019-07-08
NAICS industry code: 423720

An employee was helping unload metal piping material at a delivery location. While he was repositioning piping that had become crooked during unloading, the pipes shifted and his left hand was smashed between them. He suffered the  amputation of the little finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Metal pipes, tubing
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high