Incident date: 2015-11-14
NAICS industry code: 532490

Employees were dismantling a scaffold and were handing down a piece of plywood, which was 4-feet by 6-feet, when it slipped from a coworker's hands and fell 50 feet. The plywood struck the injured employee in the left foot behind the steel-toe shoe. His left toes were amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment dropped by other person
code_source: title: Plywood, wood paneling; particle, chip, flake board
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Toes(s), toenail(s)
severity: high