Incident date: 2023-06-22
NAICS industry code: 238210

Employees were conducting renovations to a boiler system in the basement of a school. Two employees were carrying out a 10-foot pipe when the injured employee lost his footing on a ramp. As he went to catch himself, the pipe landed on his right ring finger, resulting in a crush injury that required medical amputation of the top of the finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker
code_source: title: Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high