Incident date: 2025-07-22
NAICS industry code: 331210

An employee was separating a bundle of steel channel using a lifting device. While the employee was inserting a piece of wood dunnage between the pieces of material, the load shifted. This caused the steel channel to come down and pinch the employee's index finger, leading to a partial amputation of the fingertip.

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