Incident date: 2017-03-20
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee suffered a fingertip amputation while working with conduit on a concrete floor. The injured employee was manually bracing a piece of metal conduit while another employee applied pressure to bend it. The conduit rolled and caught the injured employee's finger between the conduit and the concrete floor resulting in amputation of the left middle fingertip.

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