Incident date: 2023-07-31
NAICS industry code: 333924

An employee was training another employee on a hoist and heavy assembly operations for powered industrial vehicle manufacturing. One employee was lowering the power unit down when the injured employee's hand was caught and pinched between the power unit and a stationary piece of equipment. The employee's left thumb was partially amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Overhead hoists, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high