Incident date: 2021-08-16
NAICS industry code: 327320

Two employees were offloading 12-inch pipes from a truck at a construction site. They were operating the offloading mechanism when one employee's left little finger was pinched between one rolling pipe and the next. The finger was degloved and the fingertip was medically amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by rolling object or equipment-other than powered vehicle, unspecified
code_source: title: Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high