Incident date: 2024-06-24
NAICS industry code: 484121

The injured employee was helping a forklift operator take out a well pipe from a railroad gondola car. While picking up the pipe, one pipe slid toward the car where the employee was standing and crushed his left ring fingertip, resulting in amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by rolling, sliding, or shifting objects non-running
code_source: title: Pipes, tubes  metal
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high