Incident date: 2022-01-28
NAICS industry code: 517312

An employee was stacking a tower and using a wooden board to align the tower. When the tower fell into place, the employee's left middle finger was crushed under the wooden board and the weight of the tower (about 4,000 pounds). His left middle finger was amputated at the first knuckle.

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