Incident date: 2018-11-13
NAICS industry code: 321113

At about 7:20 p.m. on November 13, 2018, a maintenance worker was installing a plastic clevis pin in the fully extended ram of an air-pressurized pneumatic cylinder. The clevis/pin ram caused a fracture and laceration to his right index fingertip that later resulted in a medical amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high