Incident date: 2024-04-09
NAICS industry code: 927110

An employee was closing the doors to an industrial storage cabinet when their right index fingertip was pinched in the attached cabinet-locking mechanism, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Cabinets, cases, dressers
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high