Incident date: 2017-04-10
NAICS industry code: 333613

An employee was setting up a hydraulic pull tester station (5000 lbs. capacity). A plastic chain product was put under tension. While the employee was adjusting some locking washers with a spanner wrench, the plastic chain snapped and the employee's left middle fingertip was caught and amputated between the washer and a table.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high