Incident date: 2016-10-18
NAICS industry code: 336611

An employee was cutting sections of a vertical pipe (shaft for a valve). When he pushed the last cut section out of the way, the pipe fell straight down and pinned his fingers between the pipe welds, breaking his right-hand middle and index fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Metal pipes, tubing
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate