Incident date: 2020-10-09
NAICS industry code: 331522

An employee was attempting to line up machined holes in a repaired gear box assembly's base plate to bolt it into the gear box cabinet. The gear box assembly was being raised into position and the employee was correcting the alignment when the gear box assembly shifted and caught his right hand between the upper interior cabinet and the gear box assembly resulting in amputation of the ring and middle fingertips.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high