Incident date: 2017-10-23
NAICS industry code: 928110

An employee was performing maintenance on an aircraft's main landing gear. He removed a pin from the drag brace on the main landing gear and placed his thumb in the hole that the pin was in. The drag brace then shifted, amputating his right thumb tip just above the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Aircraft unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high