Incident date: 2019-09-03
NAICS industry code: 332312

An employee was welding and grinding on a 14-inch, 40-foot pipe resting on two sawhorses. As employees adjusted the pipe, it fell off the sawhorses and struck the employee doing the welding, who suffered a broken right thigh bone, a broken left ankle, and an amputated fingertip on the right hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Metal pipes, tubing
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high