Incident date: 2019-01-17
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was assisting others in rotating a canopy on a piece of heavy machinery which was to be placed where welders were working when his finger was caught between two pad eye stops. The employee sustained the amputation of the distal fourth finger on the left hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Construction, logging, and mining machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high