Incident date: 2022-09-15
NAICS industry code: 321999

An employee was disassembling a blower line. When the employee removed bolts to separate a portion suspended by a crane from the ground-mounted portion, the ground-mounted portion settled and crushed a finger on the employee's left hand against the guard rail of a scissor lift. The employee suffered an amputation to the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high