Incident date: 2024-05-20
NAICS industry code: 331314

On May 20, 2024, an employee was placing ingot tongs onto an aluminum ingot to lift it from a casting pit using an overhead crane. The employee placed his right hand on the ingot tongs to position them when the tongs engaged causing a compound fracture to their right index finger. This resulted in amputation of the finger at the first joint.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Cranes gantry, overhead, monorail, container
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high