Incident date: 2015-04-22
NAICS industry code: 331221

On 4/22/15 at 1:00PM, an employee was moving a load of bent plate steel, 10 pieces @ 200 lbs each, on a material cart.  While pushing the cart over a transition in the floor (between two shops), the material shifted and caught his hand between cart and the material, crushing his left hand forefinger. The employee's finger was surgically amputated at the hospital.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high