Incident date: 2016-11-07
NAICS industry code: 331521

An employee was cleaning the funnel on a die cast machine while standing on an inverted pail. He slipped off the pail and tried to catch himself with his right hand. The die cast's shot rod retracted, catching and crushing his right pinky and thumb, resulting in fractures.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
code_source: title: Buckets, baskets, pails
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate