Incident date: 2022-01-14
NAICS industry code: 238210

At about 3:00 p.m. on January 14, 2022, an employee was trying to place a piece of wood (2x4) under a switchgear, which another employee was holding up with a pry bar. The pry bar slipped and the gear fell onto the first employee's left index finger. The employee suffered a distal amputation of the finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Switchboards, switches, fuses
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high