Incident date: 2018-02-21
NAICS industry code: 325211

An employee was removing the fourth stud on a four-hole bolt pattern to separate two vertical sections of pipe when the employee's finger was caught between the flange of the falling lower section of pipe and an adjacent pipe flange. The employee suffered an amputation of the fourth finger's distal phalanx.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Fasteners, connectors, ropes, ties, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high