Incident date: 2025-03-14
NAICS industry code: 331511

On March 14, 2025, in the top pick and sort area of the finishing department, an employee was sorting castings on an elevated work platform. They were working with a casting or piece of gating when their right little finger got pinched between the actuator plow and the casting or gating. The employee's fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  unspecified
code_source: title: Machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high