Incident date: 2025-03-24
NAICS industry code: 311612

Two employees were transporting a loaded product cart, with one employee pushing and the injured employee pulling in front. As they moved the product cart into a cooler, a wheel on the cart caught the lip of a drain and began to tip forward. The injured employee went to catch the cart and his hand was caught between the lip of the cart and the floor. The employee sustained an amputation to the distal interphalangeal joint of the left middle finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object tipping over
code_source: title: Utility carts, hand trucks, dollies
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high