Incident date: 2016-02-05
NAICS industry code: 238220

On 2/5/16 at approximately 9:00 a.m., an employee was loading four-inch black pipe onto a truck rack. The employee was securing the pipe into straps and a pipe rolled back onto his hands. The employee was wearing leather work gloves. The pipe crushed his right middle finger on his right hand resulting in a hairline fracture and laceration requiring sutures. The employee was later hospitalized for treatment of an infection.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment rolling freely
code_source: title: Metal pipes, tubing
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate