Incident date: 2016-02-06
NAICS industry code: 332911

An employee working in the melt department was injured while moving materials by hoist. The employee pinched his 4th and 5th distal ends between the wire rope and the sheave of the load block, resulting in an amputation of the 5th distal digit.

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