Incident date: 2016-06-12
NAICS industry code: 621910

An employee was exiting the patient compartment of an ambulance when her ring caught on a thumbscrew on the railing. Skin was torn from her ring finger, requiring surgery.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with objects and equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Ambulance, police, and other emergency passenger vehicle
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate