Incident date: 2020-09-15
NAICS industry code: 331511

An employee was moving two steel pipes from one run to another run using a rail car pipe truck. While transferring pipe, the east (right side) pipe struck a steel I-beam causing the pipe to jump the pipe truck retainer lip and the spigot end of the pipe struck the employee's foot. The employee suffered a partial amputation of the foot.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Metal pipes, tubing
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Foot (feet), unspecified
severity: high