Incident date: 2019-02-12
NAICS industry code: 333997

An employee was being trained by his supervisor as they removed structural steel from a transfer line. An 8-foot-long .25 thick steel C channel tipped over and the employee's left middle finger was pinched between the steel and the fixed rail support. The fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Beams-unattached metal
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high