Incident date: 2023-10-28
NAICS industry code: 424510

An employee was loading a corn train and opening and closing the top hatches of the grain rail cars. As the employee unhooked the snap hook of their self-retracting lifeline (SRL) that was temporarily hooked to a rail car, the cars began to move. The employee's left index finger was caught between the snap hook and the rail car, resulting in partial amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Rail vehicle incident, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Train, locomotive, rail car, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high