Incident date: 2017-01-24
NAICS industry code: 238140

An employee was transporting a scaffold section from the hall of a school under construction to a bathroom to begin masonry work. The employee had his hand against the wall as he was waiting to erect the scaffold. Another employee slid a section of the scaffold down to the injured employee. At that point the section slid down and amputated the employee's left pinky fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high