Incident date: 2015-06-23
NAICS industry code: 424690

An employee received a partial amputation injury to his left middle finger. The employee was helping to pick up a 55 gallon drum that had fallen/tipped off a forklift when the employee's finger became caught between the drum and the forklift, resulting in injury.

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