Incident date: 2020-11-02
NAICS industry code: 423330

An employee was manually moving a 55-gallon steel drum away from other drums on a pallet in order to pick up the drum using a drum grabbing machine. The drum shifted and pinched his left pinky above the knuckle. The employee sustained an amputation of the left pinky fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Barrels, drums-except pressurized
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high