Incident date: 2022-01-17
NAICS industry code: 493130

An employee lost his balance after attaching his lanyard to a scaffold. He grabbed for the scaffold, and his finger was pinched between the attachment point and the lanyard clip. He suffered a fingertip amputation with no bone loss.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high