Incident date: 2025-05-06
NAICS industry code: 238110

An employee was on a scaffold setting concrete forms at a construction site. The employee was hoisting up a scaffold stringer and set it down when it slipped. He went to catch it and his finger became caught between the stringer and the scaffold gate. The employee sustained a partial tissue amputation to the right little finger below the last digit and required stitches to his ring finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object dropped by person
code_source: title: Self-supporting scaffolds or staging
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high