Incident date: 2018-07-18
NAICS industry code: 331210

A crane operator was off loading nine foot steel round billets from a trailer to a nearby billet pile.  Steel yard attendants assist the operator with final positioning of the billets from ground level using no-touch tools. The injured employee used his hand on the end of the billet to push and align it with the row. At this time, the second billet released from the crane magnet and contacted the injured employee's right hand. The employee sustained a partial amputation of the right thumb at the distal joint.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Metal materials-nonstructural, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high