Incident date: 2015-09-24
NAICS industry code: 423930

An employee was sorting scrap metal by hand. The employee's finger got caught between a piece of metal and the handrail that it was being tossed over into a bin. The piece landed on the fingertip and pinched it between the rail, resulting in an amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Scrap metal
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high