Incident date: 2022-03-23
NAICS industry code: 331111

An employee was lifting a steel train wheel. The lifting tong caught the employee's left ring finger, resulting in amputation at the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Material and personnel handling machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high