Incident date: 2015-11-14
NAICS industry code: 237120

On November 14, 2015, an employee was loading tools and was folding a triangle tool that has steel cables attached to it. The cables had slack in them and when the employee folded them, the cable tightened up and amputated the employee's right pinky fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Entangled in other object or equipment
code_source: title: Handtools-nonpowered, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high