Incident date: 2023-06-01
NAICS industry code: 423510

An employee was separating two pieces of steel tubing from a bundle of four. The tubing fell; the employee's left thumb was caught between two pieces of it, and he suffered a laceration that included a ligament in the thumb. He was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Bundles, bales
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate