Incident date: 2020-07-01
NAICS industry code: 336211

An employee working at the magnetic particle inspection clamp in the track machine line activated a hydraulic clamp and pinched their right ring finger between the side edge of the product being clamped and the clamp wall. The pinching action trapped the employee's finger and removed the soft tissue portion of the ring finger pad under the fingernail, resulting in a partial amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high