Incident date: 2015-10-25
NAICS industry code: 237110

An employee was installing a metal flange on a 20-inch pipe and pinched a finger between the pipe and the metal flange while retrieving a nut that dropped between the pipe and flange. The right index fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched between two stationary objects
code_source: title: Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high