Incident date: 2024-04-08
NAICS industry code: 238220

A three-person crew was setting up a pipe stand for a 40-foot-long pipe. With one person handling each side of the pipe stand, the raised roller part of the stand was lowered into the socket of the stand. The injured employee's right ring finger was caught between the stand and the adjustment nut, resulting in an injury that led to the amputation of the fingertip.

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