Incident date: 2023-11-07
NAICS industry code: 237110

An employee was welding while on a suspended scaffold when their finger was pinched between the scaffold and the interior wall of a ground water tank (workpiece). The employee suffered a partial amputation of the left little finger.

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