Incident date: 2019-05-28
NAICS industry code: 423310

An employee was standing on a ladder working on a garage door when the employee's left index finger was caught in the garage door opener chain and sprocket, resulting in a finger amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Garage doors
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high