Incident date: 2017-05-08
NAICS industry code: 423930

On May 8, 2017, around 11:15 a.m., an employee had just finished cutting a 6-foot piece of aluminum with an alligator shear when a piece of the metal spun into the air and amputated the first knuckle of his left ring finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
code_source: title: Scrap metal
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high