Incident date: 2024-09-29
NAICS industry code: 238990

An employee was guiding a temporary roof onto a scaffolding structure when their thumb became caught between a panel of the temporary roof and a scaffold component. The employee sustained an open displaced fracture of the distal phalanx of their left thumb, resulting in an amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Structural elements  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Thumb(s)
severity: high