Incident date: 2021-07-26
NAICS industry code: 332710

An employee removed a weld mint (welded part) from an A-frame cart using a hoist and proceeded to maneuver the part onto a pallet for packaging. The employee's finger got pinched between the hoist hook and the part. The employee sustained an amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Overhead hoists, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high