Incident date: 2025-04-07
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee closed a valve and then went through a galvanized fall protection gate and climbed down three ladder rungs to the ground. His right hand became caught in the hinge of the gate as it closed. The employee sustained an amputation to the tip of his right thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Gates
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high