Incident date: 2020-11-30
NAICS industry code: 488320

An employee was guiding a steel cover back into position on top of a rail car. The top shifted and the employee's finger was pinched between the brake wheel and the hoisted steel cover. The employee was hospitalized for surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Rail car(s)-unattached to locomotive
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate