Incident date: 2024-03-12
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee and a crew were unloading cap beams from a delivery truck and into a staging area. Some of the beams needed to be flipped in order to access the lifting knives. The beams were flipped using shake-out hooks. The crew was repositioning a flipped beam to line up with previously unloaded beams when the load shifted. The employee's left ring finger got caught between the rigging and flange of the beam, resulting in a partial fingertip amputation.

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