Incident date: 2020-04-20
NAICS industry code: 335210

A maintenance employee was helping move a die that was sitting on a pallet. The die tilted and pinched the employee's right little finger against another die causing a cut that required surgery and hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Dies, molds, patterns
code_nature: title: Cuts, lacerations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate