Incident date: 2017-09-12
NAICS industry code: 311222

An employee was manually lowering a piece of steel from the fifth floor to the first floor using ropes when he lost control of the rope. His left ring fingertip was then caught and amputated between the rope and the fifth floor guardrail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Rope, twine, string
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high