Incident date: 2020-10-02
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was snipping a piece of wire off of a horizontal, temporary, piece of rebar. The rebar fell and struck the employee's thumb resulting in an amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Bars, rods, reinforcing bar (rebar)
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high