Incident date: 2022-10-19
NAICS industry code: 541620

An employee was moving product inside a gondola railcar with a walk-behind skid loader. The employee's left thumb was crushed between the loader and the railcar wall; the employee was hospitalized, and the thumb was medically amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
code_source: title: Skid steer loaders, mini loaders
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high