Incident date: 2024-02-19
NAICS industry code: 445220

An employee was moving boxes of frozen product from a stack to a conveyor belt when they slipped and fell. The box they were carrying weighed 20 kg and fell onto their right little finger, crushing it. The distal portion of the finger was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Fall on same level due to slip or trip
code_source: title: Other constructed surface
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high