Incident date: 2018-10-13
NAICS industry code: 332321

An employee and a coworker were moving an aluminum extrusion weighing approximately 43 pounds when the coworker dropped his end. The employee's right middle finger was inside the extrusion at the time and suffered an avulsion that required surgical amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment dropped by other person
code_source: title: Structural metal materials, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high