Incident date: 2025-02-27
NAICS industry code: 321911

On February 27, 2025, employees were preparing for the installation of metal garage doors. The injured employee was lifting a door axle to place on the holding bracket of the door table as another employee pushed the table in to adjust the width. The injured employee's finger was caught between the door axle resulting in a partial fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Doors  rail mounted and garage
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high