Incident date: 2024-10-26
NAICS industry code: 213112

The injured employee was holding tubing while another employee used a sledgehammer to straighten out a bent tube. The roof that was being lifted fell down with the piping and crushed the injured employee's left thumb, resulting in amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact incidents  unspecified
code_source: title: Source, secondary source  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Thumb(s)
severity: high