Incident date: 2024-01-24
NAICS industry code: 112511

The injured employee was holding a tee fitting on a pipe while it was being tightened by another employee using a pipe wrench. The injured employee's left little fingertip and fingernail were caught between the pipe wrench and the tee handle, resulting in amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by object held or wielded by person
code_source: title: Wrenches, ratchets
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high