Incident date: 2024-07-18
NAICS industry code: 532490

An employee was moving a small jack stand. The employee removed the pin to lower the jack stand with their left hand and their right middle finger went into the pin hole. The stand slipped eight inches and pinched their right middle fingertip, resulting in surgical amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by object handled by person  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Jacks
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high