Incident date: 2021-12-18
NAICS industry code: 321920

An employee was building pallets when a flipper arm tore off a stringer. When the employee pulled off the stringer to fix the pallet, a photo eye was activated, which fed a stringer into the work area and caused the employee to be caught between the stringer and the jib. The employee sustained a partial amputation to their left ring finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
code_source: title: Machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high