Incident date: 2018-05-04
NAICS industry code: 238990

On May 4, 2018, an employee started to build a scaffold when the vertical scaffold leg fell and hit the cross braces. The employee's left ring finger was caught between the cross braces and the vertical scaffold leg. His left ring fingertip was amputated (no bone loss).

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Scaffolds-self-supporting staging
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high