Incident date: 2021-05-24
NAICS industry code: 331222

An employee was standing on the platform at the galvanizer machine holding onto the metal hand rail and observing the moving shovel/ladle for cleaning the galvanizer. The shovel/ladle struck the middle divider of the holding tank causing the shovel/ladle to move up and down roughly. As a result the employee's hand was struck-by the handle of the shovel/ladle and their fingertip was caught between the metal hand rail and the metal handle and amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Painting, priming, metal coating machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high