Incident date: 2023-01-30
NAICS industry code: 332312

An employee was staging heat treat baskets on a roller line so they could be picked up by a hoister crane. The employee pushed a basket away from another basket, and it rolled back and struck the employee, catching his right ring finger between the two baskets. The employee sustained a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment rolling freely
code_source: title: Buckets, baskets, pails
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high