Incident date: 2021-02-06
NAICS industry code: 238120

An employee was helping to move a steel beam with a hoist. The employee's left ring and middle fingers were pinched when a hook on the hoist slipped, resulting in an amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Overhead hoists, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high