Incident date: 2024-09-30
NAICS industry code: 488490

An employee was folding down a ladder to his tanker when it became unsteady and his right index finger became pinched in the ladder. The employee was hospitalized and his fingertip was surgically amputated below the nailbed.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
code_source: title: Tanker trucks
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high