Incident date: 2024-08-28
NAICS industry code: 333244

An employee was assembling equipment. He was making a controlled adjustment to a pneumatic cylinder by slowly adding air pressure. As the pressure built, one of the safety latches dis-engaged, causing the cylinder to move suddenly and crush the employee's left middle finger against a mounting bracket. The employee's fingertip was partially amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high