Incident date: 2022-10-05
NAICS industry code: 336211

At 4:15 p.m. on October 5, 2022, an employee was orienting a stack of wooden sticks on a conveyor feeding into an end matcher. His left little finger was crushed between a stick and an even bender, causing an avulsion to the skin of the finger. He was hospitalized and the fingertip was medically amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Machinery, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high