Incident date: 2021-09-17
NAICS industry code: 238290

An employee was working on an overhead screen guard and leaning over to check jig alignment on the line. The employee had cut the welds loose on a check gig and held it up with a come-along to relocate it. The remaining single bead broke loose, causing the check gig to catch the employee's left-hand fingers against the column for the top of the check gig. The little finger was crushed and lacerated and the ring finger was partially amputated at the nailbed.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high