Incident date: 2017-03-09
NAICS industry code: 722310

An employee was performing preventive maintenance on a powered industrial vehicle (PIV). The employee was cleaning the lifting cylinder from the inside of the PIV when the cylinder pinched his right thumb causing a severe laceration to the bone that resulted in an amputation injury.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport-powered, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high