Incident date: 2016-08-12
NAICS industry code: 324110

An employee was moving a 55-gallon drum off a tommy-lift to a pickup truck. The employee tilted the drum back to roll it off the lift and released the drum. The drum pinched the employee's left pinky finger between the other drum, amputating the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Barrels, drums-except pressurized
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high