Incident date: 2024-05-24
NAICS industry code: 331522

An employee was lifting a component into a water blast machine when their right middle finger got caught between the lifting hook of the hoist and the component resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact incidents  unspecified
code_source: title: Hoists, lifts  overhead, cable
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high