Incident date: 2019-07-10
NAICS industry code: 562920

An employee operating a tire shredder was using a pry bar to free a jammed tire from the tire shredder's conveyor guard. The employee's hands became caught between the pry bar and the guard. The employee sustained four fractured metacarpal bones in the left hand and the right thumb was amputated and later reattached.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Crowbars
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high