Incident date: 2021-09-21
NAICS industry code: 311615

The injured employee was working to lift a 55-gallon chemical drum off a pallet jack. Two other employees came to help with the lift. The drum fell on the injured employee's left ring finger and amputated the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment dropped by other person
code_source: title: Barrels, drums-except pressurized
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high