Incident date: 2016-01-24
NAICS industry code: 811219

An employee was installing a part in a milling machine using an air hoist. While lowering the part the last inch, the hoist came down and the part dropped, fracturing and partially amputating the employee's right middle finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Machine and appliance parts, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high