Incident date: 2020-01-22
NAICS industry code: 423510

An employee was repairing a flexible cable tray on a production machine. The tray was raised using a bottle jack. The bottle jack kicked out while the employee's finger was in an alignment hole on the flexible cable tray, resulting in a left index fingertip amputation.

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