Incident date: 2023-08-02
NAICS industry code: 337212

An employee was assembling cabinet doors using a large clamp when his finger was crushed between the clamp and the cabinet. The employee sustained a closed fracture to the tuft of the distal phalanx and a traumatic amputation to a finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Vises, clamps
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high