Incident date: 2020-10-14
NAICS industry code: 336611

An employee was moving a piece of copper alloy pipe he had just cut and cleaned. When the employee placed the pipe section on a stationary conveyor it bounced up and pinched his left ring finger against the frame, amputating the finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Metal pipes, tubing
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high