Incident date: 2016-03-24
NAICS industry code: 488210

An employee was working on a brake assembly by installing a pin into the manual brake lever, from the bottom side underneath the railcar, when a fellow employee performed a brake test. The employee's finger was caught in the manual brake assembly resulting in injury and possible amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Train, locomotive, rail car, unspecified
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high