Incident date: 2020-10-08
NAICS industry code: 336611

An employee was removing bolts from the diving door of a submarine using an air-driven impact wrench. When he removed the final bolt, the door swung down, pushing the impact wrench down on his hand. His thumb was pinched between the impact wrench and a support beam under the submarine. The employee sustained an amputation to the left thumb that included bone loss.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Water vehicle incident, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Water vehicle, n.e.c
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high