Incident date: 2025-04-28
NAICS industry code: 336360

On April 28, 2025, an employee was reinstalling a fire extinguisher on a railing that runs along the wall. The fire extinguisher fell and when the employee went to catch it, his left little finger was caught between the extinguisher and the railing, resulting in amputation of the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by falling object  unspecified
code_source: title: Fire extinguishers
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high