Incident date: 2021-12-15
NAICS industry code: 333517

An employee was testing the pneumatic cylinder and gears in a centering device before installing the housing cover. The employee placed his hand on the assembly to steady it, and the cylinder severed the tip of his left fifth finger. The employee's finger was amputated at the distal joint.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high