Incident date: 2017-01-25
NAICS industry code: 541711

An employee was assisting in moving a portable truck scale when the load shifted, fell approximately 10 feet, and caught the employee's left-hand fingers between the cribbing and the asphalt resulting in three fingertip amputations and fractures.

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