Incident date: 2019-07-21
NAICS industry code: 482111

A conductor bled rail cars. The cars started to roll southeast down the lead. An employee attempted to apply the handbrake. While reaching for the handbrake, the employee stepped on a rail and then a rail car ran onto and stopped on his left foot. Half of his foot was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck or run over by rolling powered vehicle
code_source: title: Rail car(s)-unattached to locomotive
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Foot (feet), n.e.c.
severity: high