Incident date: 2017-10-26
NAICS industry code: 332710

Employees were testing a pipe fitting machine they had just installed when a pipe began to fall. The injured employee was trying to catch the pipe when it amputated the employee's right middle fingertip.

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