Incident date: 2024-03-25
NAICS industry code: 321214

An employee was positioning a wooden 2x4 in a pneumatic clamp and removing a metal plate when the clamp closed on their fingertip, crushing and degloving it. This resulted in a medical amputation of the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Other metal, wood, and special material machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high