Incident date: 2018-07-12
NAICS industry code: 326299

On July 12, 2018, an employee was helping to move a 30-foot rinse tank with a castor frame from storage to an operations facility when the top housing of the rinse tank shifted and came down on the frame and the employee's right hand. The employee sustained a right pinky fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high