Incident date: 2020-11-17
NAICS industry code: 623110

The injured employee was assisting another employee to transport a patient on a hospital bed from one unit to another using the outside sidewalk. The wheel of the bed went into the grass. The injured employee grabbed the wheel of the bed at the same time the second employee pulled on the bed. The injured employee's right pinky finger was pulled into the bed rail joint and the fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Beds, mattresses
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high