Incident date: 2019-02-05
NAICS industry code: 332312

An employee was pushing steel scrap with one hand into a container when a finger was pinched between a piece of scrap metal and the edge of a metal bar railing amputating the fingertip. The employee was wearing gloves at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Scrap metal
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: moderate