Incident date: 2016-07-11
NAICS industry code: 423510

On or about 7/11/16, an employee was moving four pieces of metal weighing about 84 pounds. He hand-carried the metal to a truck bed and set it down on his pinky finger. When he attempted to pull his finger out, he suffered a deep avulsion. His fingertip had to be surgically amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Structural metal materials, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high