Incident date: 2024-11-14
NAICS industry code: 339999

On 11/14/2024, at approximately 7:45 p.m., an employee was cleaning up the exterior paint booth at the end of the shift. The employee was stacking 5-gallon paint buckets and 1-gallon buckets inside of each other when their left ring finger was pinched in the buckets, resulting in amputation of the fingertip just below the nail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Buckets, baskets, pails
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high