Incident date: 2022-12-29
NAICS industry code: 238110

An employee was working on a shoring scaffold with another employee to strip plywood from cement. The employees threw a 4x4 piece of forming down and it got stuck on the beam of the scaffold. The injured employee went to grab the forming when their left ring fingertip was pinched between it and the beam, resulting in a partial amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched between two stationary objects
code_source: title: Construction debris
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high