Incident date: 2024-10-14
NAICS industry code: 811111

An employee was using a hand brake to bend material for an outside rail on a trailer repair job. The employee released the clamp lever to place the material between the brake's upper and lower jaws. The lever snapped back, catching the employee's left ring finger against the stop block on the back of the handle. The fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Bending, crimping machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high