Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201690633 - Employee Suffers Amputation Of Finger

Accident Summary Nr: 201690633 -- Report ID: 0950662 -- Event Date: 06/24/2002
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
301275319	07/03/2002	1791	0	Jk Enterprises

Abstract: Employee #1 was working as a member of a steel erection ground crew guiding steel beam bundles being unloaded by a crane from a truck. Employee #1 was holding onto a beam with his hand when the crane operator took slack off the hoist cable to drop the beams. The beams came together on the ground and Employee #1's hand was struck by an adjacent beam Employee #1's finger was crushed between two beams. Employee #1 was hospitalized.

Keywords: STEEL BEAM, AMPUTATED, FINGER, CONSTRUCTION, HOIST, CAUGHT BETWEEN, CRUSHED, STEEL ERECTION, CRANE

Accident Details
End Use		Project Type		Project Cost	Stories	Non-building Height	Fatality
Sewer/water treatment plant		New project or new addition		$5,000,000 to $20,000,000	3	35

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation	Construction
1	301275319			Hospitalized injury	Amputation	Occupation not reported	Distance of Fall: feet Worker Height Above Ground/Floor: feet Cause: Emplacing reinforcing steel Fatality Cause: Caught in stationary equipment

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