Incident date: 2024-09-26
NAICS industry code: 332323

Two employees were removing racks of painted parts from a conveyor belt and putting them on a dolly. The injured employee had his left hand on the upright of the dolly when the other employee dropped his end of the rack. The injured employee's left ring finger was caught between the rack and the dolly, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object dropped by person
code_source: title: Shelves, shelving, racks
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high