Incident date: 2015-07-15
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was working with formwork that has pins and telescope. The finger was in one of the scaffold pin holes and when the scaffold collapsed it took off the tip of his right middle finger. No bone was lost.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high