Incident date: 2019-01-17
NAICS industry code: 484121

An employee was moving steel flat bars from the forks of a forklift by hand when the material shifted and caught the employee's right middle finger. The fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Bars, rods, reinforcing bar (rebar)
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high