Incident date: 2023-10-13
NAICS industry code: 327331

Employees were pushing a pallet of brick on a free rolling, roller system. As the pallet was pulled forward, the injured employee's left ring finger was caught between the pallet runner and the roller, resulting in an amputation of the fingertip below the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Skids, pallets
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high