Incident date: 2017-09-26
NAICS industry code: 321211

An employee was loading veneers onto a table, which goes onto a rolling conveyor belt. As she was setting the table onto the conveyor belt, her left pinky finger was pinched between the table and the conveyor belt. Her finger broke, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Tables, worktables
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate