Incident date: 2025-04-17
NAICS industry code: 722513

An employee was removing a folding cart from a catering delivery van. He was pulling the (folded) cart out of the van's side door and grabbed the bottom of the cart behind the wheel. As he twisted it to remove it from the van, he lost his grip and the cart fell. The cart opened up as it was falling and the metal bar snapped back against the top of his left middle finger. The employee's finger was crushed, partially amputated, and the tuft was fractured.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Utility carts, hand trucks, dollies
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high