Incident date: 2025-04-14
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was disconnecting and unscrewing a spinner and a J-bolt from a suspended 80- to 100-pound steel waler. The waler slipped and the employee's left thumb was pinched between the waler's flange and the J-bolt, resulting in amputation of the thumb tip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Beams and rails  metal
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high