Incident date: 2021-12-02
NAICS industry code: 811310

An employee was assembling a hydraulic cylinder in a plant's assembly area. The rod of the cylinder unexpectedly retracted into the tube and the employee's right-hand fingers were trapped in a pinch point between the cylinder tube and the piston rod. The employee's index fingertip was amputated.

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