Incident date: 2022-11-28
NAICS industry code: 331210

An employee was returning to work when they noticed that the tabs of two steel pipes had become interlocked with one another. As a co-worker was helping to remove a tab from one of the pipes using a plasma cutter, the pipes moved and the injured employee's left hand became caught between the pipes. The employee sustained an amputation to the left index finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Metal pipes, tubing
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high