Incident date: 2024-05-23
NAICS industry code: 336412

An employee was placing a metal shim on the right car of a grinder to align a square slab with the cart's material edge stop. The slab shifted and their left index finger was pinched between the slab and the shim, resulting in a partial amputation of the fingertip without bone loss.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by rolling, sliding, or shifting objects non-running
code_source: title: Panels, sheets, plates  metal
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high