Incident date: 2017-07-28
NAICS industry code: 336111

The injured employee and another employee were lining up a W access adapter/base plate. Three of the four bearing pins were located/lined up. The fourth pin was then located/lined up and the base dropped, pinching the injured employee's thumb. The employee pulled his thumb away from the base resulting in amputation of soft tissue.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Nonclassifiable
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high