Incident date: 2024-02-05
NAICS industry code: 327390

An employee was moving a set of slab tongs into position when the tongs closed on their right middle finger and crushed it. The employee required amputation to the right middle finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact incidents  unspecified
code_source: title: Hooks, shackles, magnets, clamshells
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high