KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI—2025-09-04

MASSMAN CONSTRUCTION CO.

Fall, contact incident onboard water vehicle · Amputations involving bone loss

Final narrative

An employee was inserting dogbone links (4 feet 9 inches in length) into the slots between sectional barges to connect the barges. A dogbone link became stuck in the slot and needed to slide down approximately 1 foot to be seated. The employee went to lift the dogbone link up and adjust it when the link became free. A burr on the flange of the link snagged the employee's right glove. The link slid into a seated position and the employee's right middle finger was caught between the top surface of the barge and the top flange of the dogbone link. The finger was partially amputated at the midsection of the distal phalanx.

Hospitalized Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) Barge

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