Incident date: 2019-04-30
NAICS industry code: 2371

An employee was in the trench putting a gasket on the previous pipe joint when an excavator  started lifting the cut joint. The pipe swung like a pendulum as it was lifted and smashed the employee's left-hand fingers between the swinging pipe and the existing pipe. Two fingers were surgically amputated to the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
code_source: title: Excavating machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high