Incident date: 2022-10-26
NAICS industry code: 332321

An employee was uncrating a boxed door display weighing about 800 pounds for showroom display. He was using a hand-held drill to unscrew the wooden crate. As the employee unscrewed the last piece of plywood on the crate, the 50-pound piece of plywood fell on top of his hand, and his right middle finger became caught and was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Plywood, wood paneling; particle, chip, flake board
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high