Incident date: 2016-08-26
NAICS industry code: 327320

An employee was checking bolts on a truck mounted rolling concrete mixer. The employee reached for a wrench that was stuck on the mixer and pinched the right index finger between the wrench and truck mounted pedestal. The initial injury was a severe laceration that later became a surgical amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched between two stationary objects
code_source: title: Wrenches-nonpowered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high