Incident date: 2025-04-22
NAICS industry code: 336111

An employee was loosening the legs of a metal desk on the production floor to adjust the height when the desk collapsed onto the employee's right hand, resulting in amputation of the thumb tip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Collapse, engulfment  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Tables, desks, work surfaces
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high