Incident date: 2023-02-06
NAICS industry code: 237120

An employee was spotting a forklift as it moved structural steel beams at a construction site. The forklift set two of the beams down on cribbing. The employee was separating the beams when one of them shifted; the employee's right middle finger was caught between the two flanges on the beam, and the fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Beams-unattached metal
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high