Incident date: 2023-05-01
NAICS industry code: 327331

An employee was manually making special-sized concrete lintels. He was sliding a C-channel lintel mold down the table he was working on. (The C-channel was 8-inches tall by 20-feet long and weighed about 300 pounds.) The C-channel slipped, tilted, and pinched his left ring fingertip, causing an amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Dies, molds, patterns
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high