Incident date: 2019-09-07
NAICS industry code: 331210

An employee was grinding the end of a 30-inch diameter, 40-foot long spiral steel pipe. The pipe was spinning and was set on fixed rotating wheels. The employee was in line with the V-roller line which brings pipe to the rotation station. The V-roller line engaged, sending a pipe in a south to north track. The employee was caught between the moving pipe and the pipe that was on the rotating wheels. The employee was hospitalized for an abrasion.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Abrasions, scratches
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: moderate