Incident date: 2023-07-17
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee was helping load a truck for delivery. He was picking up a bottle of argon weighing 125 to 155 pounds and lost his balance. The employee fell and the bottle landed on his hand, fracturing the index, middle, and ring fingers and amputating a fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker
code_source: title: Containers-pressurized, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high