Incident date: 2023-04-03
NAICS industry code: 561320

A temporary employee was working on a line painting purple bands on pipes. The employee was squatting under the pipe at the inbound area with his right hand holding the paint roller and his left hand balancing against the pipe rack. One of the pipes rolled, striking him, and catching his left little finger between the pipe and the pipe rack. The employee sustained a distal fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment rolling freely
code_source: title: Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high