Incident date: 2015-10-01
NAICS industry code: 331111

On or around October 1, 2015, an employee was attempting to pry up a refractory plate into a bobcat bucket when his right pinky finger became pinned between the pry bar and the furnace wall. His pinky finger was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Crowbars
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high