Incident date: 2025-05-07
NAICS industry code: 311812

An employee was operating a scissor lift to clean cobwebs on the ceiling when his left hand was caught between the scissor lift guard rail and a support beam on the ceiling. The employee sustained a partial amputation of his little finger and a laceration on the ring finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed between running equipment and other object(s)
code_source: title: Hoists, lifts  scissor, telescoping
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high