Incident date: 2024-02-07
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was in a man basket, cleaning off beams and removing overhang jacks. The basket was moved while his left hand was on its guardrail, and his middle and ring fingers were crushed between the guardrail and a highway beam. He suffered amputations to the two fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed between running equipment and other object(s)
code_source: title: Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high