Incident date: 2024-10-10
NAICS industry code: 332312

An employee was banding six pieces of 1.5-inch-thick, 20-foot-long angle iron. The employee's left middle finger was caught between the angle iron and the banding, causing the fingertip to be amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Beams and rails  metal
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high