Incident date: 2019-09-09
NAICS industry code: 321214

While building a truss, an employee's left hand was holding onto a wooden truss when a pneumatic clamp, designed to hold the sides of the truss in place during manufacturing, engaged and caused the partial amputation of the employee's left thumb tip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Clamps, couplings
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high