Incident date: 2025-06-24
NAICS industry code: 326199

An employee was putting a fiber drum into an elevator when the drum became jammed. As he worked to release the drum, it shifted and its stored tension moved it upward, catching his left thumb as he pulled back between the top of the drum and the frame of the elevator opening. The employee suffered a partial fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Elevators, hoists, lifts  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high