Incident date: 2019-09-18
NAICS industry code: 333618

An employee was pushing an engine block onto a conveyor when their right thumb was pinched between the engine block and a clamp inside a machine. The employee sustained a laceration and an open fracture to the thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate