Incident date: 2019-06-12
NAICS industry code: 331111

An employee was banding a bundle of cut flat steel bars with an overhead crane when the bundle slipped out of the hoist chains and fell onto the employee's right middle finger, crushing and breaking it.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Bundles, bales
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate