Incident date: 2015-03-30
NAICS industry code: 237110

The injured employee was holding a 1/4" steel plate with another employee while a supervisor operated a crane to move the steel plate. The wind caused the plate to twist, and the injured employee's left hand got crushed between the steel plate and a truck. The injury resulted in an amputation at the hospital.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Metal plates, metal panels
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Nonclassifiable
severity: high