Incident date: 2023-02-17
NAICS industry code: 238320

An employee was rigging equipment to be placed on the tank roof. While setting up containment rigging, the steel outriggers slipped from the employee's hand and slammed on top of his finger, crushing it against the exterior tank roof. The employee sustained a crush injury to the left index fingertip and nail bed damage that resulted in an amputation.

Note to coder- amputation

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high