Incident date: 2015-12-21
NAICS industry code: 333992

An employee was working in Department 24 at the "B" line boxing station.  Welding rods were moving on the indexing cooling conveyor that carries them from the furnace.  The employee was assisting the movement of the rods along the conveyor with his left hand when his right thumb was caught in a pinch point in the conveyor resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Conveyors-powered, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high