Incident date: 2018-09-21
NAICS industry code: 333618

An employee was fitting a skirt to the center core of an upper frame for an excavator when the pneumatic clamp was actuated, making contact with the employee's left thumb and resulting in a fracture and partial amputation of the thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Welding machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high