Incident date: 2017-08-15
NAICS industry code: 326211

An employee was repositioning a pallet that was misaligned on a batch-off pallet magazine. When he raised the pallet, his left thumb tip was caught and crushed between the pallet and pallet magazine frame, removing flesh and the nail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Stacking machinery
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate