Incident date: 2022-12-24
NAICS industry code: 531311

After shoveling sidewalk snow for five hours in 2-degree weather, an employee developed frostbite to all five fingers on their right hand, as well as the left index and ring fingers. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Exposure to environmental cold
code_source: title: Cold-environmental
code_nature: title: Frostbite
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: moderate