Incident date: 2022-01-22
NAICS industry code: 332312

An employee was installing a new screw jack on a metal fabrication line. As he used a pair of vise grips to manually turn a motor shaft to calibrate an encoder, the vise grips slipped and cut him. He suffered partial amputations to his right middle finger and ring fingertip and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by handheld object or equipment, unspecified
code_source: title: Vises, clamps
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high