Incident date: 2015-07-17
NAICS industry code: 325611

An employee was helping a coworker upright a 55-gallon drum full of liquid with the forks of a powered industrial truck. The drum fell, and the employee's hand got caught underneath it. He was hospitalized and had his left middle fingertip amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Barrels, drums-except pressurized
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high