Incident date: 2022-08-15
NAICS industry code: 237110

An employee was setting an 8-inch-diameter overflow pipe in a tank shaft. His left little finger was pinched between the pipe he was lowering and the fixed pipe, and was amputated at the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high