Incident date: 2021-09-30
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was picking up a piece of copper pipe when it slipped out of his hand. As he tried to grab it, his finger was pinched between the piece of copper pipe and a sharp end of a pipe connection coming out of a building. The employee suffered a torn tendon on his ring finger, resulting in hospitalization and surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Metal pipes, tubing
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate