Incident date: 2019-03-05
NAICS industry code: 325188

An employee was connecting railcars. The employee's right foot/ankle was caught between the railcar connection devices, causing crushing injuries that required hospitalization and surgical amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Rail car(s)-unattached to locomotive
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: high