Incident date: 2020-09-10
NAICS industry code: 327332

An employee was painting an 18-inch detention system manifold supported on a metal sawhorse. When the employee rolled the part from vertical to horizontal, the pipe side of the manifold slipped off his hand. His left ring finger was pinched between the pipe and the sawhorse and the fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Building materials, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high