Incident date: 2024-08-01
NAICS industry code: 238210

An employee was cleaning up after a job and placing an electric post insulator (approximately 35 pounds) into the dumpster when it slipped and pinched their fingers between the glass insulator and the dumpster. The employee sustained a laceration to their left middle finger and a crush injury to the index finger that resulted in a partial amputation at the hospital.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object dropped by person
code_source: title: Electric parts  n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high