Incident date: 2025-07-08
NAICS industry code: 333111

An employee was using the forks on a forklift to support a 1-inch thick sheet of metal. The forklift was lifting the sheet up two inches from the original process bed when a 1-inch thick metal skeleton (cut out of the sheet of metal) dropped through the original sheet onto the employee's left ring fingertip. A quarter inch of the fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Metal building materials  unspecified form
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high