Incident date: 2020-02-27
NAICS industry code: 336111

An employee was working in the pit under a vehicle. While using a two-handed tool to loosen a bolt on the vehicle, the tool hit the front passenger-side tire. The tool then pinched the employee's finger against the vehicle's skid plate resulting in a partial amputation to the middle finger on the left hand. The vehicle was not moving, but the tires were rotating at the time.

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