Incident date: 2025-03-14
NAICS industry code: 423740

An employee was working next to a 12-inch, 21-foot-long pipe that was being lowered using a 1-ton chain fall. The chain fall slipped, causing the steel pipe to drop. It struck his left hand, causing the partial amputation of the ring fingertip and the loss of the fingernail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
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