Incident date: 2019-01-29
NAICS industry code: 325998

The injured employee had just finished delivering gas cylinders to a customer. As the employee was folding the lift gate on the truck to put it away, their left ring finger was pinched between the lift gate and the ramp resulting in amputation below the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
code_source: title: Delivery truck or van
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high