Incident date: 2016-11-18
NAICS industry code: 423830

An employee was helping to assemble a standard duty wrecker and was in the process of guiding a part into position when a component inside of the part shifted and pinched/partially amputated the employee's finger between two sections.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Machine, tool, and electric parts, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high