Incident date: 2018-10-26
NAICS industry code: 238140

An employee was connecting steel tube sections for the installation of helical piles. He was checking the alignment of two tube sections when one of the sections was turned in an effort to align it, and his left index finger was caught in in a bolt hole amputating the fingertip.

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: Fingertip(s)
severity: high