Incident date: 2015-06-26
NAICS industry code: 238110

An employee was injured when picking up some steel plates from a pallet. When one piece of steel started to slip, he tried to catch it with the other hand.  His middle finger became pinched between two pieces of steel. He required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Metal plates, metal panels
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate