Incident date: 2025-06-26
NAICS industry code: 326199

An employee was raising a 65-pound plastic tank out of the dunk tank after the plastic tank failed a leak detection test. The plastic tank got caught on the arm of the dunk tank. The plastic tank then came loose from the dunk tank arm and fell, crushing the injured employee's right hand against the edge of the dunk tank. Their ring finger was surgically amputated at the distal interphalangeal joint.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Tanks, bins, vats  except confined space
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high