Incident date: 2024-08-07
NAICS industry code: 237110

The injured employee and another employee were removing a manhole cover. An employee lifted the cover with a hook. The hook slipped off the cover and the cover fell onto the gloved hand of the injured employee, pinning his left middle fingertip against the frame of the manhole. The injured employee sustained a fingertip amputation without bone loss and was hospitalized and underwent reattachment surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Manhole and cistern covers
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high