Incident date: 2020-09-26
NAICS industry code: 221114

While an employee was removing the wooden shipping frame from a bundle of metal purlins the purlins shifted and pinched his left middle finger between the purlins resulting in an amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Bundles, bales
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high