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Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA

Accident: 117837.015 - Employee'S Finger Is Injured When Steel Load Shifts

**Accident: 117837.015 -- Report ID: 0950611 -- Event Date: 03/27/2019**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1390640.015	04/04/2019		Schuff Steel

At 2:20 p.m. on March 27, 2019, Employee #1, a foreman employed by a steel erect ion company, was working at the site of a new five-story commercial building. W hile handling a load of iron with dunnage in between the pieces of iron, one of the wood blocks shifted, causing the foreman's fingers to be pinched/smashed. O ne fingernail was destroyed. The employee received medical treatment for the in jury but was not hospitalized.

Keywords: aerial lift, caught between, crushed, dunnage, erection process, finger, load shift, nail, pinched, steel erection, struck by

Accident Details
End Use		Proj Type		Proj Cost	Stories	NonBldgHt	Fatality
Commercial building		New project or new addition			5	5

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation	Construction
1	1390640.015	43	M	Non Hospitalized injury		Construction trades, n.e.c.	FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Steel Erection Of Open Web Steel Joists-Moving Poi FatCause:

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