Incident date: 2018-01-29
NAICS industry code: 327310

An employee was carrying and stacking cement blocks when his gloved left pinky finger became caught under a block. As he attempted to pull the finger from underneath the block, his hand came out of the glove and suffered an amputation to the top of his left pinky finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Concrete blocks, cinder blocks
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high