Incident date: 2025-01-16
NAICS industry code: 238220

The injured employee was welding an 8-inch-thick, 8-foot-long pipe weighing about 600 pounds. The injured employee, along with another employee, rotated the pipe on its stand to finish a cap weld around a joint. The pipe stand tipped, causing the pipe to fall and strike the employee's right little finger and left big toe. The employee suffered fractures and lacerations.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Pipes, tubes  metal
code_nature: title: Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
code_body: title: Upper and lower extremities  n.e.c.
severity: moderate