Incident date: 2023-02-03
NAICS industry code: 325180

An employee was repositioning a vacuum hose at a worksite. The hose was being lowered to the ground from scaffold bracing when it caught the employee's left hand against the horizontal scaffold bracing, resulting in a partial amputation to the little finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Hoses
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high