Incident date: 2017-03-02
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was throwing a 4-inch cast iron pipe into a garbage dumpster. The dumpster was full and the pipe came back and smashed his left hand ring finger. He was hospitalized for a severed tendon in the finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Metal pipes, tubing
code_nature: title: Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate