Incident date: 2016-10-08
NAICS industry code: 331221

An employee was trying to square a bundle of steel sheets using a 4X4 piece of wood up against an I-beam. The sheets caught the employee's left little finger, removing flesh from the knuckle to the fingertip. The fingertip had to be surgically amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Bundles, bales
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high