Incident date: 2015-05-27
NAICS industry code: 221115

An employee was operating a fastener tool. While checking the tightness of bolts, he lost balance and pinched his right hand pinky finger between the fastener tool and the wall. Employee suffered an open fracture of the right hand pinky finger and was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Turning handtools-power not determined, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate