Incident date: 2019-12-19
NAICS industry code: 333924

A temporary employee was cutting banding from a bundle of steel tubing. When the last section of the banding was cut, the tubing rolled and caught his left pinky finger between the tubing and an upright stop on the table. His left pinky finger received an avulsion that resulted in a medical amputation of the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment rolling freely
code_source: title: Metal pipes, tubing
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high