Incident date: 2020-04-17
NAICS industry code: 238120

An employee was manually positioning  a 13-foot long, 460-pound steel I-beam with his hands onto cribbing with the assistance of a forklift when other I-beams stationed on the forks of the lift shifted. This action resulted in the employee having his right-hand middle finger caught between I-beams, which resulted in a partial amputation to his finger.

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: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high