Incident date: 2024-12-12
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was placing a prefabricated structure onto stanchions. As he was tapping the structure with a hammer to align it with the stanchions, his left thumb and index finger were crushed underneath the structure. The employee sustained an amputation to the fingers and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Mobile building
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Thumb(s) and finger(s)
severity: high