Incident date: 2017-10-25
NAICS industry code: 237110

An employee was placing a wooden 2x4 between steel roadway grates when the employee's right hand was caught between two grates, fracturing two fingers and causing tendon damage and an amputation to the first knuckle of the right ring finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Grates
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high