Incident date: 2024-07-18
NAICS industry code: 541214

The injured employee was recording another employee servicing a tank. The injured employee climbed up a brick wall, lost their balance, and fell toward an operating machine. As they attempted to steady themself, their finger made contact with wiper blocks resulting in a severe laceration to their left middle finger, resulting in medical amputation and hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall to lower level resulting in exposure or contact  unspecified
code_source: title: Walls
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high