Incident date: 2016-02-05
NAICS industry code: 331222

An employee was lifting a bundle of bars with an overhead crane.  The employee was steadying the load with his ungloved left hand.  The load of bars shifted and pinched his finger.  The employee suffered a partial amputation of his left ring finger.

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: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high