Incident date: 2022-12-16
NAICS industry code: 811198

An employee was performing the caging process on a new brake chamber. The employee had just aired up the chamber and was putting the caging bolt into the end of the chamber when the internal plates compressed. The bolt pulled against the chamber end, catching the employee's fingers against the chamber. The employee's left index finger and thumb were amputated at the knuckle.

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