Incident date: 2024-10-23
NAICS industry code: 238990

An employee was installing a piece of prefabricated 4" pipe. While manually tilting the pipe, it shifted in the straps and pinched their fingers between flanges. The employee sustained an amputation of their right index fingertip with an open fracture from a crushing injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Pipes, ducts, tubing  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high