Incident date: 2024-06-03
NAICS industry code: 321912

An employee was operating a stacker machine and evening out a gap between two boards when the hydraulic air gapper pushed the two boards together. The employee sustained a right index fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Stacking machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high