Incident date: 2021-04-19
NAICS industry code: 331111

An employee was placing elbow spacers between 4-inch by 4-inch, 40-foot-long billets. The tips of the employee's left pinky and ring fingers were crushed between an elbow and a billet, causing fingertip amputations.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Metal sheets, ingots, bars-nonstructural
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high