Incident date: 2025-05-16
NAICS industry code: 238120

On May 16, 2025, an employee was performing iron work. He was sliding a 3/4" x 2' x 4' bent plate across another plate to position it for installation. The bent plate crushed his left middle finger between the two steel plates. The distal bone was fractured and required a revision amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with non-running objects or equipment  unspecified
code_source: title: Panels, sheets, plates  metal
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high