Incident date: 2023-06-28
NAICS industry code: 541620

An employee was operating an excavator inside the steel mill's melt shop. The excavator drove over a piece of steel that became trapped beneath the tracks of the excavator. As the employee drove forward, the piece of steel broke the front windshield and amputated the employee's left ring fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Nonroadway noncollision incident, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Backhoes, trackhoes
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high