Incident date: 2023-01-06
NAICS industry code: 722511

An employee was working at the cashier station of a drive-through window. A customer drove into the drive-through but their driver-side car window wasn t operational. The customer opened his car door and provided payment to the employee through the partially opened car door. After payment was made, the employee handed the customer his food through the open car door. The customer then turned to put the food on his passenger seat and closed his car door as the employee was reaching into the car door to hand the customer his receipt. The car door closed on the employee s left ring finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
code_source: title: Automobile
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high