Incident date: 2023-05-10
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee and a co-worker were loading a 4-foot-tall piece of high-pressure iron pipe into a line truck. When the employee was setting down the pipe, his right middle finger was caught between the hammer union wing and another piece of high-pressure iron pipe, resulting in a finger amputation.

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), unspecified
severity: high