Incident date: 2016-10-27
NAICS industry code: 311612

The employee attempted to manually align boxes by pulling the bottom box forward, causing the top box to slide back and pinch the employee's right middle finger between the two boxes. A chunk of tissue was removed from the finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Boxes, crates, cartons
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate