Incident date: 2019-03-15
NAICS industry code: 488210

An employee was part of a crew conducting maintenance on a rail siding. The jack holding the rail fell, and the tip of the employee's left middle finger was caught between a tie plate and the underside of the rail. The fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Rails-unattached metal
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high