Incident date: 2021-12-17
NAICS industry code: 221210

An employee was performing maintenance on a gas compressor when his foot slipped off the piping on which he was standing. As he fell, the employee put his left hand out to catch his fall. The valve cap he was holding in his right hand fell onto his left ring finger resulting in an amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high