Incident date: 2025-03-12
NAICS industry code: 512110

An employee was working from a scissor lift about 6 feet off the ground, installing pieces of cut, non-rusted galvanized steel siding on a premanufactured building. A piece of siding (about 3 feet long, weighing 2 to 4 pounds) slipped from the employee's grasp and cut the top of his right hand. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object dropped by person
code_source: title: Exterior siding
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
code_body: title: Hand(s), except finger(s)
severity: moderate