Incident date: 2021-09-07
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was trying to slide a work platform back into its housing. His middle finger was caught between the midrail and the side safety gate of the platform. The pad of the finger was severely lacerated, and was medically amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high