Incident date: 2024-05-21
NAICS industry code: 331110

On May 21, 2024, an employee was manually moving two steel tubes while they were in a basket hitch. The tubes rolled and came together, pinching his left index fingertip and resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by rolling, sliding, or shifting objects non-running
code_source: title: Pipes, tubes  metal
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high