Incident date: 2019-05-17
NAICS industry code: 811111

An employee was checking a wheel bearing noise by spinning the tire and listening with a stethoscope when his right hand slipped into the rim and it caught his fingertip. As a result, he suffered an amputation to the right index finger from below the nail to the top of the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Highway vehicle, motorized, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high