Incident date: 2018-01-23
NAICS industry code: 332111

An employee was grabbing an end piece from the billet box on a shear cutter when the shear cut another piece (an approximately 70-pound billet), which rolled and struck his left hand. His index and ring fingers broke, and the three middle fingers required stitches on the palm side. He was hospitalized and had surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Metal sheets, ingots, bars-nonstructural
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate