Incident date: 2016-02-17
NAICS industry code: 561612

On February 17, 2016, an employee was exiting a scissor lift when his finger became caught in a cable attached to a locking pin.  The locking pin is used to hold a top rail into place at the end of the scissor lift.  The employee's right ring finger was amputated down to the second knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Aerial lifts, scissor lifts-except truck-mounted
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high