Incident date: 2020-06-12
NAICS industry code: 332312

A temporary employee was operating a shear to cut rebar. The employee was removing two pieces of rebar from the gauge table when his finger was pinched between a piece of rebar, the prybar he was using, and the gauge table. This resulted in surgical amputation of the right middle fingertip, just below the fingernail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Crowbars
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high