Incident date: 2015-02-25
NAICS industry code: 331316

An employee working in the extrusion department was moving racking material with a crane when he pinched his left-hand, third fingertip between the hook and rack. The employee sustained a fingertip amputation and underwent out-patient surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Cranes, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high