Incident date: 2020-10-20
NAICS industry code: 423860

On October 20, 2020, a maintenance employee was cleaning a machine pit. The employee was lifting a wooden box and it slipped out of his hands. When he tried to grab the wooden box, he pinched his left middle finger between the wooden box and a metal corner on the machine resulting in amputation of his left middle fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker
code_source: title: Boxes, crates, cartons
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high