Incident date: 2020-04-17
NAICS industry code: 423930

An employee was in the process of switching railcars in the scrap yard when he slipped and fell from the engine landing beneath the railcar wheel as the railcar was moving. His right leg and left foot were crushed, resulting in a right leg amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall or jump from and struck by rail vehicle-transportation incident
code_source: title: Train, locomotive, rail car, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: high