Incident date: 2020-08-17
NAICS industry code: 335313

An employee was preparing to bend copper pipe with a hand-held pipe bender. The employee's left thumb was caught and fractured between the pipe bender's cylinder and the pipe.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Handtools-power not determined, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate