Incident date: 2017-03-17
NAICS industry code: 423860

An employee was operating a rail spike machine and noticed that a steel bar was not feeding properly into the pinch wheel. The employee used his hand to manipulate the bar to feed properly and caught his right middle finger in a pinch point resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Construction, logging, and mining machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high