Incident date: 2025-03-05
NAICS industry code: 492110

On March 5, 2025, a package handler was moving packages off a slide to a belt and was lifting a heavy, irregularly-shaped box when it shifted. The box came down on their right hand and pinched a finger against the slide. The employee sustained a partial amputation to the tip of the finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by rolling, sliding, or shifting objects non-running
code_source: title: Boxes, crates, cartons
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high