Incident date: 2023-03-02
NAICS industry code: 327332

An employee was removing cured product from casts and staging it in the yard for future delivery when one of the outer casts opened up crooked. The employee placed his left hand on scaffolding for the outer cast. When the employee attempted to correct the crooked cast by pushing it, it came back together and trapped his middle finger. The employee sustained injuries to the skin and muscle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Dies, molds, patterns
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate