Incident date: 2024-10-18
NAICS industry code: 311991

An employee was closing the door of a cardboard compactor. As he was pulling the door down with his left hand, it closed on his right hand, resulting in a soft tissue amputation through part of the fingernail of his ring fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Trash compactors, shredders
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high