Incident date: 2020-04-16
NAICS industry code: 336120

An employee took the plug out of a hydraulic cylinder when the metal arm on the cylinder came down under its own weight and pinched his pinky finger between the two pieces of metal. As a result, his right pinky finger was partially amputated at the first knuckle. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high