Incident date: 2020-03-19
NAICS industry code: 331491

An employee was coupling railcars near the melt shop. The employee's right foot was crushed between railcar couplers and toes were amputated by the steel toe of their boot. The employee was hospitalized and their leg was medically amputated from the knee down.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by rail vehicle-transportation incident
code_source: title: Train, locomotive, rail car, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: high