Incident date: 2024-09-27
NAICS industry code: 811118

An employee was stacking uprights at a customer location. While lowering a steel beam, he lost footing and his left little fingertip was caught and amputated between two steel beams.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
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