Incident date: 2023-12-06
NAICS industry code: 331210

An employee had picked up a piece of steel tubing at each end to throw it into a recycling bin. When the employee threw the tube, it caught on a fixed air pipe. The employee's right hand was caught between the end of the tube and the pipe, and the employee's index finger was broken.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by thrown object-unintentional injury
code_source: title: Metal pipes, tubing
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate