Incident date: 2016-02-17
NAICS industry code: 424490

An employee was on break and eating lunch in the store deli. She was seated in a chair that had a loose seat bottom.  While scooting her chair closer to the table, she got her right ring finger caught between the loose seat bottom and the chair's frame. When she sat back down she tore the flesh off the distal joint of her right ring finger. She was transported to the local hospital where doctors had to amputate the distal joint.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Chairs
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high