Incident date: 2024-01-31
NAICS industry code: 236220

Employees were repairing a metal truss. As they lowered it to the ground, its weight shifted toward one of the employees. The employee's left index finger was caught between the edge of the truss and a steel-toe boot and was amputated between the first knuckle and the lower part of the nailbed. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object dropped by person
code_source: title: Beams and rails  metal
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high