Incident date: 2024-07-11
NAICS industry code: 237120

Two employees were looking for steel tubing in the yard. Employee 1 knelt down to read the size numbers on the tubing. Employee 2 pulled out a piece of tubing and then tripped over a white mesh bag of parts from a delivery. The tubing was dropped on employee 1's right middle finger, amputating the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object dropped by person
code_source: title: Pipes, tubes  metal
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high