Incident date: 2025-07-08
NAICS industry code: 321999

An employee was at the jobsite preparing to help with the use of a new rock clamp that is operated by machine but guided into place by hand on the ground. The employee reached and gripped the bottom of the clamp to move it. Linkage activated that crushed his left middle fingertip resulting in an amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact incidents  unspecified
code_source: title: Clamps, couplings
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high