Incident date: 2019-03-26
NAICS industry code: 531120

An employee was moving a 72-inch industrial magnet (weighing 8,460 pounds) on steel sawhorses. The employee was repositioning the sawhorses while the load was suspended from a crane. A weld securing the magnet broke. The magnet fell on the employee's left index finger, crushing it against the sawhorse. The finger was amputated at the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Hooks, shackles, magnets, clamshells
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high