Incident date: 2024-02-07
NAICS industry code: 311824

An employee was using a magnet in the waste bin while cleaning the metal. The employee walked the magnet to the other side of the line, then placed the magnet on a metal surface which caught their hands between the metal and the magnet, resulting in amputation of the middle fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Hooks, shackles, magnets, clamshells
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high