Incident date: 2015-10-27
NAICS industry code: 332420

An employee was removing building jacks from a bolted water tank. He was lowering sections of jacks and as he pulled the pin on the jack his left hand became pinned between two jacks resulting in the amputation of the left hand index and middle fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Jacks
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high