Incident date: 2024-10-01
NAICS industry code: 423510

An employee was placing wood blocks under crane-elevated 1-inch steel plates when the plates slipped out of the chain hooks. The steel plates fell onto the employee's hand, crushing their finger and resulting in partial amputation of the finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Panels, sheets, plates  metal
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high