Incident date: 2015-04-20
NAICS industry code: 481111

On April 20, 2015, an employee was loading a powered wheel chair weighing approximately 400 lbs into the cargo bay of a 757 aircraft and got his left pinky finger caught between the wheel and the frame of the wheel chair resulting in the amputation of the pinky fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Wheelchairs-powered
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high