Incident date: 2024-06-06
NAICS industry code: 321920

The injured employee was lifting 4 sheets of 3/8-inch plywood with his teammate. As they went to drop the plywood, the injured employee's left ring finger became caught between the sharp edge of the plywood and the four carried sheets. The employee sustained a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object dropped by person
code_source: title: Sheets, panels  wood, plywood, MDF
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high