Incident date: 2022-09-26
NAICS industry code: 326199

An employee was trying to reach the center of an I-beam (lying on the back plate of an injection mold) to attach crane rigging to it. When he pulled the beam toward himself, it shifted and crushed his left little finger against the mold's back plate. The fingertip was medically amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Beams-unattached metal
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high