Incident date: 2015-09-12
NAICS industry code: 313111

With the assistance of other employees, the injured employee was relocating a tufting machine. The employees were in the process of leveling the machine by inserting metal leveling plates under the machine. The machine was being lifted by a 10-ton capacity pneumatic floor jack. The jack slipped and the tufting machine dropped trapping the employee's hand underneath. The employee suffered two fractured fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Textile, apparel, leather production machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate