Incident date: 2016-09-10
NAICS industry code: 238120

An employee and his crew were loading steel coils onto a barge for shipment. As a coil was being lowered onto the saddle-shaped dunnage, the employee used his right foot to adjust the position of the dunnage board. He missed the board and the coil came down on top of the steel-toed cap of his boot, which collapsed onto his right toes. His big-toe nailbed was crushed and his second toe was fractured. His third and fourth toes were surgically amputated just below the nailbed.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Water vehicle incident, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Barge
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Toes(s), toenail(s)
severity: high