Incident date: 2016-10-07
NAICS industry code: 332117

An employee was working at a drum dump station, dumping material into a tumbler.  He was putting a 55-pound steel drum onto the dump station when the drum fell. When he tried catching the drum, his right index finger was caught between the falling drum and the next drum in line to be dumped, amputating his fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Barrels, drums-except pressurized
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high