Incident date: 2025-02-27
NAICS industry code: 221114

An employee was descending a multi-position ladder when he slipped and his finger became caught in the mechanism of the ladder as he fell. The employee sustained a degloving to a finger and an amputation to the second knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level  unspecified
code_source: title: Multipurpose ladders
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high