Incident date: 2018-08-06
NAICS industry code: 327390

An employee was applying initial stress on a concrete cable using a jack when either the cable snapped or the chuck that holds the cable in the jack failed, creating a pinch point. The employee's left thumb was caught in the pinch point, resulting in a surgical amputation to the thumb.

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