Incident date: 2020-01-11
NAICS industry code: 444130

An employee was transferring a safe with a hand truck. While tilting the hand truck backwards, the safe door opened and fell backwards causing her left middle finger to be caught between the door and side of the safe. The employee suffered a fingertip amputation without bone loss.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Cabinets, cases-display, storage
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high