Incident date: 2018-07-13
NAICS industry code: 336611

An employee was using a crane to move steel plates onto a scaffold's deck. The plates shifted and made contact with a scaffold pole, pinching the employee's left little finger. The employee suffered an amputation/avulsion of about a quarter inch of the finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Metal plates, metal panels
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high