Incident date: 2020-10-21
NAICS industry code: 921150

An employee was loading a chest freezer to be thrown away. As he was lifting the freezer, the lid opened and one of his fingers was crushed between the lid and the side of the freezer. The fingertip was amputated.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Refrigerators, freezers, ice makers
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high