Incident date: 2017-01-19
NAICS industry code: 321213

An employee was attempting to clean the focus eye lens in a trough that wood passes through on the lay-up assembly line. The machine started while the employee's right ring finger was in the strike area and a piece of wood crushed the finger, breaking it and causing the fingertip to burst.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
code_source: title: Product assembly machinery, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate