Incident date: 2017-05-01
NAICS industry code: 337110

An employee was gathering wooden door fronts from a conveyor when the employee's right middle and ring fingers were caught in the chain and sprocket along the conveyor line resulting in a laceration to the ring finger and a broken middle finger that required surgery. The chain and sprocket on the conveyor were unguarded at the time.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate