Incident date: 2025-07-05
NAICS industry code: 332710

An employee was dumping aluminum scrap from an engineered scrap can into a larger scrap container when the release cable caught the employee's gloved thumb between the lever cable and the handle of the scrap can. The employee sustained an amputation to the thumb tip.

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