Incident date: 2021-02-03
NAICS industry code: 326199

An employee was assisting a plating operator with moving a 5/8" X 60" X 125" steel plate weighing 1,200 pounds to a 4" X 4" piece of dunnage. During the transfer, the employee placed his hand on the dunnage as the operator was using a pry bar to move the plate to a table. The plate caught the employee's ring finger and crushed it, resulting in a laceration that became an amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Metal plates, metal panels
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high