Incident date: 2016-04-20
NAICS industry code: 484230

An employee was attempting to load a piece of medical equipment on the bed of a truck when the equipment shifted, crushing and amputating the employee's finger between the truck's lift gate and the equipment.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Medical, surgical, x-ray machinery and equipment, unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high