Incident date: 2017-07-27
NAICS industry code: 238120

An employee was shaking metal bar joists bundled on the forklifts to separate the metal bar joists and to move them to the staging area for edge grinding. One metal bar joist broke free from the bundle and smashed the employee's finger in between the metal joist and the forks of the forklift. The employee suffered an amputation to his left middle finger up to the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Structural metal materials, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high