Incident date: 2024-10-14
NAICS industry code: 332710

An employee was breaking and detaching iron castings from a runner machine. One of the castings jammed and he reached to hold the casting with his left hand when his little finger was pinched between the casting and the runner, resulting in crush injuries.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Casting machinery
code_nature: title: Nonfatal 'crushing' injuries
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: moderate