Incident date: 2019-03-22
NAICS industry code: 423510

An employee was moving a round bar stock from the pan to the saw when the bar slipped. The employee grabbed it and their left thumb was crushed between the bar and the saw arm. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left thumb.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker
code_source: title: Parts and materials, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate