Incident date: 2024-05-14
NAICS industry code: 423930

An employee was trying to remove a piece of metal from a chute. The metal fell while his hand was under a diverter plate, caught his hand, and pulled on it. He suffered fractures to the right hand and lacerations to the thumb/thumb tendon.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact incidents  unspecified
code_source: title: Source, secondary source  unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures and surface, flesh wounds
code_body: title: Hand(s) and finger(s)
severity: moderate