Incident date: 2015-06-06
NAICS industry code: 332312

Employees in the rail welding area were backing up a conveyor to remove an overload caused by too many pieces of curved strands. The injured employee's hand got caught between two sections of rail, amputating some of the flesh on the right ring finger. There was no bone loss.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Rails-unattached metal
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high