Incident date: 2025-05-19
NAICS industry code: 321920

An employee was placing a board onto a pallet on the automatic pallet machine when his hand slipped and his left index finger contacted the nailer carriage assembly. His finger was pinched in the assembly, resulting in hospitalization with a crushing injury to the finger that required surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Other metal, wood, and special material machinery  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Nonfatal 'crushing' injuries
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: moderate