Incident date: 2024-12-07
NAICS industry code: 336611

An employee was using a torch to cut a small opening in a steel beam on a barge. A 5-inch-by-20-inch piece of metal came off and struck the employee's left ring fingertip, resulting in a partial amputation to the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Scrap metal
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high