Incident date: 2022-10-14
NAICS industry code: 238910

An employee was placing a brick under a steel plate to make room for a shear with a fork attachment to lift the plate and place it onto a truck skid. The weight of other stacked steel plates caused the plate to fall and crush the employee's right index finger. The employee suffered an amputation to the finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Metal plates, metal panels
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high