Incident date: 2019-11-11
NAICS industry code: 331523

An employee was helping someone roll a steel tie bar onto a cart when the tie bar fell and the employee attempted to catch it. The tie bar rolled on top of the employee's left ring and middle fingers, crushing them and resulting in a partial traumatic amputation of the left middle finger through the phalanx.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Bars, rods, reinforcing bar (rebar)
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate