Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
105,991Records 71,450Employers 85,836Hospitalizations 27,959Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-11-30

OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221422330

UHLMAN'S MIDWEST ERECTORS

Event
Aerial Lift, Amputated, Amputation, Falling Object, Finger, Fingertip, Hand, Metal, Panel, Struck By
NAICS
238120
Inspection type
Referral
Activity number
#345701544
Employer profile
UHLMAN'S MIDWEST ERECTORS
Summary number
221422330
Report ID
0729700

Event description

Employee is struck by falling panel, receives amputation of

Investigation abstract

At 4:30 p.m. on December 17, 2021, an employee passed a metal panel to a coworker on a boom lift. The employee let go of the panel when they believed the coworker had control of the panel. The panel fell and struck the employee's hand and amputated two fingertips. The employee was taken to the hospital and admitted for treatment.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 53 M

    Event type
    1

Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.