Incident date: 2025-08-14
NAICS industry code: 445110

Three bakery mixer bowls were stacked on a rolling transportation cart next to bags of flour, adjacent to a starter fermenter. An employee was moving bags of flour. Needing to move the bowls, the employee moved the cart. The bowls tumbled off the cart and bounced off the floor. While the employee was trying to stop the bowls from rolling, his right ring fingertip was crushed between two of them. He suffered a contusion and amputation to the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Dishes, small receptacles  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high