Incident date: 2017-03-05
NAICS industry code: 311812

An employee was pouring flour into a vat. The bucket slipped from the employee's hand and fell into the vat. The employee tried to pull the bucket out of the vat and suffered a left ring fingertip amputation when the finger was caught between the lip of the vat and the bucket.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
code_source: title: Buckets, baskets, pails
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high