Incident date: 2021-12-07
NAICS industry code: 336411

An employee was climbing down a maintenance stand to reposition the stand's foot-activated wheel lock. The employee reached down with their left hand to pull up the wheel lock; the lock disengaged and crushed the employee's index finger between the mechanical brake mechanism and the limit setting bolt.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
code_nature: title: Crushing injuries
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate