Incident date: 2016-08-22
NAICS industry code: 236117

An employee was standing on a ladder plugging in the garage door opener motor. He began to fall and grabbed the metal frame that holds the motor to the ceiling. When his hand contacted the metal, he sustained a laceration to the first knuckle of his left ring finger and his pinky finger was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Garage doors
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high