Incident date: 2025-04-18
NAICS industry code: 238910

An employee was patching a reinforced concrete pipe that was 36 inches in diameter and 8 feet long. The employee was on a patch line with his right hand placed on the outside of the pipe to use it for leverage. When the pipe transport dropped off the next pipe, it rolled and crushed his right hand between the two pipes, resulting in amputation of the ring fingertip.

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