Incident date: 2018-03-12
NAICS industry code: 326199

An employee was mixing acrylic purge with a mixer when the mixer drum tipped. He attempted to catch the drum and stand it back up. While he was standing it back up, his left thumb was crushed between the mixer drum and the stand, resulting in a partial amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Barrels, drums-except pressurized
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high