Incident date: 2025-06-10
NAICS industry code: 331529

An employee was lifting a cope mold using a mold manipulator. While the mold was suspended in the air, he reached under it to retrieve the rollover pin. The mold slipped out of the manipulator and fell onto his right hand, causing a severe degloving of the right forearm and hand. He was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Dies, molds, patterns
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
code_body: title: Hand(s) and arm(s)  n.e.c.
severity: moderate