Incident date: 2015-01-26
NAICS industry code: 221210

While making deliveries the vehicle's brakes failed causing the vehicle to roll. The driver tried to stop the vehicle by chocking the wheel. While attempting to chock the passenger side rear wheel the employee's left index finger was trapped between the metal chock and the tire resulting in an amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Highway vehicle, motorized, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high