Incident date: 2022-08-25
NAICS industry code: 238340

An employee was putting a 2-by-4 lumber strip on a pallet. A press die was lowered onto the employee's right thumb, causing a crushing injury and a partial amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Dies, molds, patterns
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high