Incident date: 2024-05-11
NAICS industry code: 237120

An employee was lifting the lid to a control panel on an underground wiring pulling machine when the lid fell and caught their right ring fingertip, crushing it. They sustained an open displaced fracture of the distal phalanx of the finger, and a partial amputation through the phalanx.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling part of vehicle or machine, still attached
code_source: title: Other material and personnel handling machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high