Incident date: 2015-04-06
NAICS industry code: 484110

An employee was trying to dislodge an airline shipping container that got stuck while transferring freight via elevator equipment from the airplane cargo to a truck. He climbed onto the elevator and got his left middle finger caught on the elevator, amputating his left middle finger at the first digit below the nail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Elevators
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high