Incident date: 2022-10-07
NAICS industry code: 238220

An employee was using a hydraulic press to make a polymer product. The employee needed to flip an 80-to-100-pound cylindrical mold end over end; as he was lifting it, it slipped and caught his finger against the bottom of the hydraulic press platform. The finger was crushed and required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker
code_source: title: Dies, molds, patterns
code_nature: title: Crushing injuries
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate