Incident date: 2017-05-03
NAICS industry code: 323111

An employee was climbing a storage racking system searching for inventory. When he was descending the racking system, a portion of his right ring finger was caught on a pallet due to a ring on his finger. He lost his footing and his right ring fingertip was amputated at the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Contact with objects and equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Skids, pallets
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high