Incident date: 2016-01-14
NAICS industry code: 484121

An employee was using a pneumatic jack to raise up a tractor truck. Once it was raised, and while he was attempting to place the jack stand under the leaf spring, the truck slipped off the jack.  The truck trapped the employee's right hand between the leaf spring and the jack stand, crushing and amputating his right index finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high