Incident date: 2017-07-10
NAICS industry code: 424720

An employee was moving a liquid nitrogen round cylinder onto a special delivery cart to hook the top of the cylinder into place when a cylinder moved and caught the employee's fingers between it and the cart. The employee's right third and fourth fingertips were amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Containers-pressurized, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high