Incident date: 2023-07-19
NAICS industry code: 321113

The injured employee was working on the stacker line and was re-positioning a piece of wood on a pallet as another employee was simultaneously using the controls to lift the pallet platform. The injured employee's right middle finger was pinched between the wood and the edge of the stacking bay resulting in a soft tissue amputation to the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Stacking machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high