Incident date: 2015-05-15
NAICS industry code: 336111

An employee was trying to install two fasteners that hold a dashboard instrument panel onto a firewall. The employee was wearing gloves; a finger on the glove got caught between the socket and the fastener, pulling the employee's finger into the socket and amputating it at the base.

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