Incident date: 2015-08-21
NAICS industry code: 336390

An employee was helping a coworker assemble a vehicle seat.  The seat was moving down the assembly line on a jig, which allows the seat to tilt forward and backward.  The employee tilted the jig with one hand while his other hand was in a pinch point. The employee's right-hand pinky fingertip got degloved between the first knuckle and the start of the fingernail. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Product assembly machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high