Incident date: 2015-02-27
NAICS industry code: 332812

On February 27, 2015, an employee severely injured his finger while moving a 50-pound vise in the Rack Maintenance Area. The employee crushed the upper portion of the right pinky finger. Medical providers removed the untreatable portion of the finger between the first and second knuckle.

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