Incident date: 2022-12-05
NAICS industry code: 332811

A temporary employee was cleaning up her work station at the end of her shift. She manually rotated the turntable platform of the spring-actuated pallet carousel skid positioner to bring a pair of pliers within reach. Her left middle fingertip became pinched between the tubular steel frame and the turntable platform resulting in amputation of the fingertip without bone loss.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Other material and personnel handling machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high