Incident date: 2020-05-13
NAICS industry code: 336611

An employee was helping move a portable scaffold on wheels. The scaffold struck a parked forklift, and the scaffold railing amputated the employee's left ring and middle fingertips. The employee was hospitalized, undergoing surgery to have the fingertips reattached.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by rolling object or equipment being pushed by injured worker
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high