Incident date: 2022-06-17
NAICS industry code: 327390

An employee was setting a stress jack into place, getting ready to stress the cable. His hand was around the ram and his thumb was in the cylinder channel against the back wall. The stressing operator started moving the ram cylinder into position and the cylinder crushed the tip of the employee's left thumb against the back wall.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Jacks
code_nature: title: Crushing injuries
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate