Incident date: 2024-09-05
NAICS industry code: 213112

Two employees were lifting a schedule 40 pipe over a cattle fence to install a natural gas line when one employee lost his footing and his finger became caught between the pipe and the fence. The employee sustained an amputation of the top of his left middle finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by object handled by person  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Pipes, ducts, tubing  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high