Incident date: 2018-03-31
NAICS industry code: 238990

An employee was dismantling a scaffold system when a cable line supporting the counterweight for the scaffold broke. This caused the counterweight to suddenly drop and catch the employee's left thumb and index finger between the weight and a steel cross beam, resulting in the amputation of the thumb at the first knuckle and fracture of the index finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high