Incident date: 2019-05-16
NAICS industry code: 237120

An employee was helping a mechanic install a boom on a pipelayer. They were trying to pin the block when the block caught the employee's left pinky finger between the boom and the block, resulting in a finger amputation behind the nail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Construction, logging, and mining machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high