Incident date: 2019-06-07
NAICS industry code: 335991

An employee was operating a manipulator (a piece of equipment used to lift a 50- to 100-pound connecting pin). The employee's right ring finger was caught between the manipulator's handlebar and a metal workstation desk; the fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high