Incident date: 2018-05-23
NAICS industry code: 423840

An employee was unloading  steel drums from a tractor trailer at a customer's site when a drum tipped over. He attempted to catch the drum and his right ring finger was caught between the ring/bolts on two drums, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
code_source: title: Barrels, drums-except pressurized
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high