Incident date: 2021-05-21
NAICS industry code: 336611

An employee was welding inside a barge. While trying to move a scaffold, a scaffold board fell and his right thumb was pinned between an angle bar and the board. The tip of the employee's right thumb was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high